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...high to permit managers making money. Other names which count for less in dollars and cents are the Singers Frieda Hempel, Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Louise Homer, Dusolina Giannini, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Louis Graveure, Pianist Josef Lhevinne, Violinist Mischa Elman. Violinist Jascha Heifetz had also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since his marriage to Cinemactress Florence Vidor his concert manner has warmed, his box-office value increased. Conversely, names which will be worth more next year are Negro Baritone Paul Robeson (TIME, Nov. 18) and Pianist Jose Iturbi (TIME, Dec. 30), the outstanding successes...
...transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi. Prophets foresaw a Menuhin-Ricci dispute which would stir such arguments as are currently waged over the relative merits of Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz...
Married. Jascha Heifetz, 27, famed violinist; to Florence Vidor, 33, cinemactress; in Manhattan...
...playing his fiddle at the Prize Day exercises at the Bovée School and his father was accompanying him with great good nature. Part of the applause came from Mrs. Zimbalist, who is really famed Singer Alma Gluck. Also in the audience was Ruvin Heifetz, father to famed Violinist Jascha Heifetz and violin master to small Efrem. Questioned about his son, Efrem Zimbalist said: "He ought to be good...
...periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering sons and daughters of his race." His tone "has been accepted as the standard by which violinists are measured." Heifetz is "the greatest technical genius of the violin of the present day." Kreisler is "the King of Violinists. Hats...