[14][15] Another reviewer was less enthusiastic, calling her "solid and substantial" performance "massive even ponderous and lacking an emotional basis".

[16] 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.

[18] In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed.

[19] In 1944 she admitted her part[20] in a conspiracy to violate the Export Control Act,[21] to help her brother Georges Schnitzer, a banker in Belgium, access his frozen accounts during World War II.

[23][24] Her donation to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 1979 was noted by the paper, because of her advanced age.