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...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...
...also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since his marriage to Cinemactress Florence Vidor his concert manner has warmed, his box-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...
...such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay for a Bach concerto. A whimsical Sinfonia Domestica, 1929, conducted by John Philip Sousa, had Pianists Bauer and Schelling pushing lawnmowers while others of equal renown played on typewriters...
Mozart's A Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...
...When Iturbi finished his program no one left Carnegie Hall. Many rushed forward to watch his square fingers more closely, called for encore after encore. He will play once more in Manhattan, then go westward again. Now that he is a success there will accompany him the kind of press stories the public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes...