Word: menuhin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Menuhin. Plenty of ice-cream was 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin's reward this week for a Manhattan recital superbly played. With his $60,000 Stradivarius, Yehudi goes from Manhattan to play at Smith College. He wears long pants now, made for him by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. But he is still carefully protected from alluring young girls. His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton. Both girls play the piano expertly but Mother Menuhin decided several years ago that one prodigy in the family was enough...
...symbolic of the secular turn their programs have taken. (In Washington last week they sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie.") Proceeds from their U. S. tour, to be taken in a bus labeled "Wiener Sängerknaben Special," will go to the school, not to the boys. Yehudi Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda when he has finished a violin recital. When the Viennese boys sing well they get candy...
When he played in Berlin three years ago Yehudi Menuhin was 12, the same age as last week's performer, Violinist Ruggiero Ricci. But although his fingers were nimble, his bowing free, his tone surprisingly smooth, the little Italian boy did not cause Chancellor von Papen to arise and cheer or Albert Einstein to rush backstage. Ricci's playing used to have an emotional quality which made few critics hesitate to class him with Menuhin. Lawsuits followed in which his parents claimed that his guardian, Beth Lackey, was exploiting the boy. The courts returned him to the parents...
...ADMITTANCE signs plastered the doors of a room on S. S. Ile de France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...your issue of TIME dated Feb. 22 you state in your article called "Fiddler Growing Up" on p. 40 that "Yehudi Menuhin is 15," you continue to say on p. 42, "He demanded an automobile license, too, last spring, got it in California by taking a test on San Francisco's busy Market Street...