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Sculptress Hoffman was born in New York 45 years ago, the daughter of British Pianist Richard Hoffman who was imported to the U. S. by Phineas Taylor Barnum in 1850 as accompanist for Jenny Lind. Later he was soloist for New York's Philharmonic Society Orchestra. The Hoffmans were quickly accepted by the very stiffest New York society. But there were five children; finances were slim. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by painting portraits of her friends, designing book jackets, covers for sheet music, wall paper, linoleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Head Huntress | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Wild Waves is a well-intended play about the fauna which infest a third-rate radio station belonging to the recent firecracker school of playwrighting that got underway about the time that Broadway was produced. As a portrait of the sort of station where the accompanist does his own announcing, where a befuddled Negro rings all the time-signals and most of the other work is done by one harried man, Wild Waves is novel and, according to oldtime radio folk, valid. Unhappily its author, Radio Dramatist William Ford Manley, has the notion that the source of rapid-fire comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

Soprano Fleischer had had a disagreement with Festival Conductor Albert Stoessel at a morning rehearsal. She had objected to the local accompanist provided for her, asked to have summoned from Manhattan little Kurt Ruhrseitz, her coach at the Metropolitan Opera House. Pianist Ruhrseitz arrived but by performance time Soprano Fleischer was missing. Festival directors searched widely for her, finally attributed her disappearance to temperament, proceeded with the concert without her. The directors should have known better. If Soprano Fleischer has flights of "temperament" she never shows them. After the concert she was discovered ia her hotel room (she had engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Batons Up! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Margaret Anglin's company in her production of "Electra"; Robert Henderson, whose successes in New York were followed by a year at the Copley Theater in Boston; and George Coulouris whose work with the Theater Guild has received exceptional praise. Louis Horst, noted pianist and the foremost dance accompanist in America has composed the music for the production, and will accompany Miss Graham in her dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLANS "ELECTRA" AS FIRST OF MANY CLASSIC DRAMAS | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

When she was in Boston six years ago a newshawk discovered that she was married to Accompanist Dandr�. Pavlova had kept it secret for 17 years. Her relations with the Soviet Government were known to be unfriendly, Red Moscow regarding her as "a darling of the aristocrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of a Swan | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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