Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Ernest ("Uncle Ernest") Schelling, 63, gawky, mustachioed U. S. musician who for 16 years has uncled, and conducted, Manhattan's Young People's Concerts; and Helen Huntington ("Peggy") Marshall, 21, niece of Mrs. Vincent Astor; in Berne, Switzerland; August...
Maestro Toscanini apparently had become a Lucerne fixture: he rented a chalet on the lake, began building a permanent home there, was made an honorary citizen of the town. Last summer Toscanini saluted another musician who once lived on Lake Lucerne. In Richard Wagner's garden, Toscanini "reconstructed" the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll, which was a serenade to Wagner's mistress and wife-to-be, Cosima...
That They Shall Have Music ended at all is no mean tribute to Producer Goldwyn's pertinacity. Having convinced Heifetz with difficulty that it was his "duty" to make a movie, Goldwyn went to work on an ambitious story about a Jewish musician exiled from Germany, was brought up short when Heifetz refused to do any acting off a concert platform. Result was that Goldwyn had no story ready when Heifetz reported in Hollywood between concert tours last summer. In desperation, when Heifetz refused to wait for his $70,000, Goldwyn had him work it out in four strenuous...
...teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal, the Library paid Lowenberg's widow $700, a fraction of the collection's worth...
...Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...