Dorothy Berliner

1889 - 1991  (102 years)

• Name	Dorothy Berliner
  Birth	1889	New York City
  Gender	Female
  Death	Oct 1991	Princeton, New Jersey
  Person ID	I28208	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2017

  
  

  Family	Saxe Commins,   b. Abt 1892, Rochester, Monroe, New York d. 1958, Princeton, New Jersey (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	1927
  Family ID	F16823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2017

  
  

• Notes

  NYT, 17 Oct 1991: Dorothy Berliner Commins, a concert pianist and author, died on Monday at her home in Princeton, N.J. She was 102 years old. Mrs. Commins was born in New York City and made her recital debut at Town Hall at the age of 12. She studied in New York and in Europe and had an active career for five decades. Her last concert was at Town Hall in the mid-1950's. In 1927 she married Saxe Commins, who became editor in chief at Random House. He died in 1958. Mrs. Commins's books included a biography of her husband, "What Is an Editor?" (1978); "All About the Symphony Orchestra and What It Plays" (1961); "Lullabies of the World" (1967), and a compilation of letters exchanged by her husband and the playwright Eugene O'Neill. She is survived by a son, Eugene, of Berkeley, Calif.; a daughter, Frances Commins Bennett of New Haven, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.