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After 61 U. S. concerts, Jose Iturbi, sportive Spanish pianist, sailed for Europe taking with him first U. S. citizenship papers, a Ford, a power plant for generating electricity and water, an electric refrigerator, a set of bathroom fixtures. The contrivances are for a home Iturbi is building in his native Valencia...
Good artists who ask nominal fees can command as good tours as ever. Baritone John Charles Thomas sings for $1,500 but his 92 engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
...never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
...annual westward migration of pianists occurred 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...
...Spanish Iturbi was the sensation of last season. He is an elfin person, called by his friends "Petrouschka." He plays the piano as if he enjoyed it tremendously, takes each phrase separately, polishes it smooth, turns it a dozen ways to catch the different lights. Iturbi will give some 70 recitals this season, appear as soloist with the Cleveland, New York Philharmonic, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Orchestras...