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...made a movie showing Igor Stravinsky (played by Robert Walker) sitting at the piano and getting inspiration for a symphony by looking into a pair of pretty blue eyes. Stravinsky was never inspired that...
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto (Dumbarton Oaks Festival Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Keynote, 4 sides). Pleasant latter-day Stravinsky, but baked in only the embers of the once-powerful fire that produced Petrouchka and The Firebird. Recording: good...
...Igor Stravinsky's fortunes had not kept pace with his fame. In the 37 years since he had written it, The Firebird had made a lot of money, but not for him. For one thing, as a Russian emigre, his royalties seldom caught up with him. Guided by his friend, Music Publisher Lou Levy, Stravinsky has earned $10,000 on Firebird in the past two years, simply by writing a new arrangement of it and thereby securing a U.S. copyright. But Levy wasn't through helping...
Divorced. Igor ("Gigi") Cassini, 32, pompadoured Hearst society gossipist ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); by pretty, high-styled Austine McDonnell Cassini, 27, Washington Times-Herald gossipist ("These Charming People"); after 7½ years, no children; in Carson City...
From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...