Word: hilger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four women are aboard the Philadelphia Special: Harpists Edna Phillips and Marjorie Tyre; Cellist Elsa Hilger who popped into the news four months ago when she discovered her stolen Guarnerius in the arms of an innocent deskmate who had borrowed it from a dealer who had unwittingly bought it from a thief (TIME, Dec. 23). No musician but a competent masseuse is pretty, blonde Miss Rondum, taken along by Stokowski to give him daily rubs...
When the Philadelphia Orchestra settled itself on the stage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Cellist Elsa Hilger suddenly became so excited that she could scarcely get down to business, even when Conductor Leopold Stokowski appeared, commanding instant attention for the opening Handel overture. Cellist Hilger had spied the instrument being used by her desk-mate, Cellist Victor Gottlieb. It looked like the $10,000 Guarnerius which had been hers until two years ago when it was stolen from a taxicab...
...dealer who had offered to sell it for $4,000. Dealer Rosenthal had bought it for $600 from a violinist. The fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...