Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without calling the roll of all great musicians, TIME suggests that the following bear out its generalization: When he was 4, Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
Since the given age of six. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski, now 12, whose garrulous father has been her only teacher, has been prodigious; critics now think she may play through to greatness, as have Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann, Heifetz...
Young Russian Character-Actor Nikolai Cherkassov tried 250 different makeups, had each screen-tested, before he was satisfied his 32 years added up to 75. Then he convinced skeptical and hitherto unknown Co-Directors Alexander Zarkhi, 32, and Joseph Heifetz, 28, that he was the only man for the role. A follower of the Stanislavsky method of living a part, he so thoroughly transformed himself into a tottering ancient that his friends were alarmed. Most successful Soviet film since Chapayev, Baltic Deputy has been seen by 80 million Russians since its release last spring...
...covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback...
When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. "And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!" cried he afterward...