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...Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows by Moss Hart...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first picture in which Ilona, now Massey without Haj, has her first chance to star. Unfortunately, Hollywood has now got the idea that "social significance" has something to do with the amusement business. So the picture, which takes its name from a truncated Russian mandolin, the balalaika, includes not only fatuously lovable grand dukes and musicians, but downright sinister Bolsheviks. It also includes Baritone Nelson Eddy, the Russian Cossack Choir, an excellent cast (Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Charles Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith) and a lot of gorgeous clothing and sets...
...hrer's old friend and official photographer, who was an acquaintance of the Braun family. A vivacious blonde, she used to mix cocktails and play the accordion for Hitler and the struggling Nazi group. "Today," says the Post, "Evi considers her accordion undignified and plays only the mandolin...
...offering of the clubs has been streamlined in the past two years to include pieces more up-to-date than the mandolin and banjo groups which have formed the mainstay of the organization in the past...
Muralists Millman and Siporin both studied at Chicago's Art Institute, are prime movers in Chicago's Artists' Union. Scholarly Mitch Siporin sings, plays the piano and mandolin. High-strung Eddie Millman relaxes best at the movies. Born on January 1, Millman annually gives a combination New Year's Eve-birthday party famed among Chicago artists, for the rest of the year stays close to the wagon...