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They Shall Have Music (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is a triumphant answer to the current Hollywood theory that it is impossible to make a good picture about a great musical celebrity. Choosing one of the greatest, 38-year-old Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Producer Samuel ("The Touch") Goldwyn provided the most obvious touch of all: Heifetz as himself, a sombre, undemonstrative young man with a fiddle which he plays as well as anyone in the world can play one. Instead of the story which eventually killed operatic pictures-plucking a well-known star off the Metropolitan stage, dousing him in tribulations...
Shiny new violins and shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...independent producers, is today a relatively small pond full of big fish. Biggest fish is Samuel Goldwyn (né Goldfish), who has owned U. A.'s studios since 1935 and last week renamed them the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Producer Goldwyn proposes to make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck...
While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...
...today's fine fiddlers the are brillinat Jascha Heifetz, mellow Fritz Kreisler, fastidious Joseph Szigeti.Connoisseurs, who judge by form rather than knockouts, have long rated Szigeti tops...