127:. Another reviewer was less enthusiastic, calling her "solid and substantial" performance "massive even ponderous and lacking an emotional basis". She affirmed that technique was her emphasis: "I do not believe that a public performer is best served by giving himself up entirely to the emotional phase of his expression, since he is almost surely to fall into rhythmic and other excess which may mar the more worthy element of clarity," she told an interviewer in 1920. She was interviewed for a chapter in Harriette Moore Brower's
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In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed. She won a judgment of $ 150,000 after suing the taxi company in 1934, though it is unlikely she was ever paid. In 1944 she admitted her part in a conspiracy to violate the
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Schnitzer was a pianist with a busy concert career in North
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