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Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
...Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week...
Breezily dictaphoned in her swanky, cluttered Waldorf-Astoria apartment, her first columns anecdotalized her famed party guests, repeated such well-known Elsiana as the story of how she rejected a gift of $5,000 worth of jewels from Cartier's, instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...
Like the best-beloved of fiddlers, Fritz Kreisler, the best-beloved of pianists hated the radio. A Paderewski recital was something to see as well as hear. Even when he was past his prime, showering wrong notes in capricious rhythms, he sat, leonine and imperious, flailed and rippled at the keyboard with his stubby $50,000 fingers. He was lavish with encores, modulating continuously from one piece into the next, sometimes for as long as an hour...
Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...