Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Vladimir Horowitz arrived in Manhattan from Chicago last week, gave a final recital which elicited the customary superlatives, hurried off to Camden, N. J., where he was scheduled to make phonograph records, then sail back to Europe. In this manner the 25-year-old Russian ended what was probably a record-breaking tour of 77 concerts in 22 weeks, and a succes equalled by few recent newcomers. Before returning for a fourth U. S. tour* next January he will take a long vacation, not on the Riviera as has been his habit, but "somewhere in the mountains." Mountains...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
...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 of the season; Singers Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Sigrid Onegin, Florence Austral, Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz...