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Wonder children are manifold in the musical world. Critics rarely take them seriously-but Kreisler was a prodigy, so were Heifetz, Mischa Elman. Young Yehudi Menuhin has supplied the best violin copy of the season. Another child won serious attention last week. He was Miguel Candela, 12-year-old prize-winner of the Paris Conservatory, come to Manhattan for his U. S. debut. Critics found him better than the average prize-promising student, gave unstinted praise to the virtuosity of his twelve years, the maturity of his conceptions...
...Among these are Hofmann, Heifetz and Kreisler, Galli-Curci and Schumann-Heink, McCormack and Chaliapin...
...allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...
...that Paderewski earned $1,000,000 from concerts in two years, that ten other instrumentalists and singers* had earning capacities which equaled or exceeded Paderewski's. He also notes: "One young pianist of quite recent reputation was paid $12,000 for a week at a movie theatre. Thereupon, Kreisler refused an offer of $15,000 for a similar adventure, not on the ground that it was beneath his artistic dignity, but because the sum was below his weekly earnings in recitals...
...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...