Word: efrem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torrington, Conn. 13-year-old Minnie Pisanti ran into the street, was killed by an automobile driven by Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Under his oxygen tent at Riverside, Calif. Comedian W. C. Fields (Poppy), fighting pneumonia, was shown a newspaper picture of himself with the caption "Improved." Cracked he: "If I die tonight, they can say I died 'improved...
...Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
...irrepressible of U. S. music managers is a thickset, moon-faced Russian who travels every year to Europe, observes more new talent, signs more big new conracts than any one man in his risky profession. Solomon ("Sol") Hurok has always had a weakness for Russian perormers. He has managed Efrem Zimbalst, Mischa Elman, Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Pavlova. He spent $75,000 to import the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). Last week in Manhattan Manager Hurok introduced still more Russians: 19 choristers from Paris who call themselves the Moscow Cathedral Choir...
...still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content to be a New York hostess and devoted wife to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...that one who stands so high for all that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them...