Word: gabrilowitsch
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...Hollywood, when Mrs. Clara Samossoud, daughter of Mark Twain and widow of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, put her father's 3,000-volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing...
Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...
Married. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 51, only one of Mark Twain's four daughters to survive him; and Jacques Samossoud, 53, Russian-born conductor; in Hollywood. Her husband for 27 years was Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony's Russian-born pianist-conductor, who died...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
...Elgin Dodge), vice president of the Detroit Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed its late, lionized Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, whose successors, Coconductors Victor Kolar and Franco Ghione, are competent but barely kittenized...