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...surprise appointment was that of Britain's John Barbirolli, 36, an unknown so far as most Philharmonic subscribers were concerned. Conductor Barbirolli was born of a French mother and an Italian father who played the violin under Toscanini at La Scala. Except for his music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured...
...ballerinas who fetch the most applause are Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and Irina Baronova, all in their teens. Toumanova, a dark-skinned Caucasian, was born on a train in Siberia as her parents were attempting to escape from the Revolution. At 7, in Paris, she was praised by Pavlova who gave her a bouquet; Toumanova still cherishes its withered leaves and dried-up blossoms...
Riabouchinska was born a banker's daughter during the Tsarist regime, studied with Kshesinskaya, the ballerina who was Nicholas II's mistress up to the time of his marriage. In London the fair-haired Riabouchinska had so many stage-door admirers that the Ballet's director, Colonel Vassily de Basil, rushed her to Lloyd's, insured her against marriage for several years to come...
...French father, a U. S.-born mother. Georges Martin was born in Paris, orphaned by the War, raised and educated in France by a Philadelphian he has never seen. When his profession as an electrical engineer barely brought him bread, he commercialized his digital talent. "I make bread and butter and jam," he now can say, "soon I think there will be caviar...
...Scottish immigrant, David G. Blythe was born May 9, 1815 in a forest clearing near East Liverpool, Ohio. At 16 he was apprenticed to a Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...