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...Hearty birthday greetings to one whom the power of music has given the spirit of eternal youth." Pope Pius XII sent his apostolic benediction. From the speaker's table in a ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler got to his feet to blow...
Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...
...Italian conductor-one who "conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky, Violinists Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Isaac Stern, among others, fired off statements aimed at Chicago, warning that they would refuse to appear with the orchestra if Furtwangler conducted. Rubinstein summed it up: "Had Furtwangler been firm in his democratic convictions he would have left Germany . . . Mr. Furtwangler chose to stay and chose to perform, believing he would be on the side of the victors . . . Now he wants to earn American dollars and American prestige. He does not merit either...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Violin Soloist Nathan Milstein in the Tchaikovsky Concerto in D Major...