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...orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season, many are sponsored by Atwater Kent (Contralto Louise Homer who sang last week, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Pianist Josef Hofmann, Violinist Albert Spalding, Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Rethberg...
...last week. On the Paris came Ernest Schelling, Jose Iturbi, Ignace Jan Paderewski; on the Columbus, Walter Gieseking; on the Mauretania, Alexander Brailowsky. Good also for grapes, apples and upland game birds, this year will be a pianists' year in the U. S. Already scheduled for recitals are Josef Hofmann, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Italian Carlo Zecchi will make his U. S. debut in January. But the three men sure to attract greatest attention, sure to be the most newsworthy, are Paderewski, Iturbi, Gieseking...
...able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley...
...contested clause in the suit was won by Miss Lackey: that Ruggiero shall go through with ten concerts in ten weeks at $2,500 a concert this autumn. The Riccis feared for Ruggiero's health. Lackey counsel pointed to chubby, healthy Yehudi Menuhin.* The Riccis countered with Pianist Josef Hofmann's exploitation when a boy. Declared the court of prodigies in general, of Ruggiero in particular: "No such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half months. . . . May not a career of concert giving...
...went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees, and he would dandle them...