[1] Josephine Kryl studied with Leon Semetini,[2] Leopold Auer,[3] and Eugène Ysaÿe.

[5] At the start of World War I Josephine Kryl was a teenager, studying in Belgium with Ysäye.

Before she could return to the United States, she heard bombardments nearby, saw spies arrested, and survived an attack on a train.

"To these she adds a firmly grounded knowledge of her instrument acquired in exhaustive study which was started at an early age.

[14] Josephine Kryl married composer and conductor Paul Thomas White in 1922, forfeiting that reward.