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...considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat (played by Xavier Cugat...
...hope it won't be too much of a shock to Personality "Cugie" [TIME, July 29] to know that I go to hear Iturbi because he's a fine musician...
...secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist. They really don't go to hear Iturbi the pianist. They go to see Iturbi the movie star...
...loves the movies. M-G-M lets him keep the clothes he wears on the screen, so he has not bought a suit in five years. Says Iturbi: "The radio-ooh. If you make a mistake everyone hears it. They do not see you as a personality, they do not realize you are human. But the movies, ah. You repeat, you dub, you play perfect...
This week Iturbi is auditioning musicians, 40 at a time, for his new 96-piece Iturbi Symphony Orchestra which he will take on tour this summer. He will conduct from the keyboard while playing Liszt and Beethoven concertos. The Iturbi orchestra will fill six Pullman cars, a baggage car and a private car. Said Iturbi: "Details are carried out by my managers. I'm just interested in the idea . . . I'm not interested in the difficulties...