Word: jascha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. Jascha Heifetz, 27, famed violinist; to Florence Vidor, 33, cinemactress; in Manhattan...
...fiddle at the Prize Day exercises at the Bovée School and his father was accompanying him with great good nature. Part of the applause came from Mrs. Zimbalist, who is really famed Singer Alma Gluck. Also in the audience was Ruvin Heifetz, father to famed Violinist Jascha Heifetz and violin master to small Efrem. Questioned about his son, Efrem Zimbalist said: "He ought to be good...
...Jascha Heifetz...
...Manhattan, last week, Jascha Heifetz gave a concert-his first in the U. S. for more than two years. During those two years the press had told big stories of triumphs in Palestine, in Peking, in Hindustan, in Mexico. But in Manhattan they had to hear for themselves-Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, succulent morsels by Suk, Schubert, Debussy, Novacek, Paganini. Some critics called him the world's greatest fiddler. Others saved their superlatives for Kreisler who arrived the day before from Europe...
After a world-tour taking more than two years, Violinist Jascha Heifetz returned to Manhattan and made ready for a concert there. He played last in Mexico where audiences threw hats and gloves at him as at a favorite matador...