Word: maestro
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...cruel blow for Elliott Roosevelt (recently divorced by Actress Faye Emerson) and his new girl friend, Cafe Songstress Gigi Durston. Nightclub Maestro Sherman Billingsley, miffed that the couple had turned down his offer of an engagement party, issued a firm order to his staff barring Elliott and Gigi from his Stork Club...
Since then his palazzo has been filled with students. They browse through his library at will, sometimes approach Il Maestro with a question. Such interruptions are welcome. "For so many years under Fascism," Croce says, "not a single student came to me with his problems...
...Maestro Arturo Toscanini, pushing 83, was getting ready for a bit of traveling. Twenty days after his birthday next month, he plans to take the NBC Symphony on a six-week tour, conduct 21 concerts from New York to California...
...some "Golden Rules for Conductors" the maestro admonished crustily: "Remember, you are not playing for your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The left hand has nothing to do in conducting an orchestra. Keep it in your vest-pocket and use it only occasionally to hush an instrument. . . Don't conduct with your arms, conduct with your ears...
Distinctly less effective were the lecturing efforts of the Maestro, Singh. His anxiety to establish a theme of cultural relatively led to such interlocutory shockers as "you folks shouldn't be surprised at Indians' wearing pajamas in the daytime when you wear them in the nighttime," and that "through understanding comes mutual admiration," or maybe vice verse. Mr. Singh reversed himself on this proposition by getting tangled up in the converse a few times, but he is obviously for the United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures...