Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept man of a noble lady. Paprika finally went after him, surviving many a love bout by the way. Just as she was about to declare her love to Rogi her insatiable vanity got the better of her. and she married a dashing officer. On her bridal night Rogi...
...Central Park tool shed. One is a furniture dealer (Warner Baxter) whose sole reminder of previous affluence is a gigantic antique bed. One is a violinist (Walter King), who finds himself humiliated in his efforts to practice in public by kindly passersby who mistake him for a street musician. The third is a demure actress (Janet Gaynor) who meets the furniture dealer when both are trying to filch a supper from the open kitchen windows of the Central Park Casino...
When Jan Kubelik fiddled in the early 19OO'S crowds stormed the box office. Ladies' hearts fluttered while he tossed off trills and double harmonics, looking 11ke a picture-book musician with his blazing eyes, his waving mane. Kubelik's hands were once insured for $100,000. He was rich enough in 1918 to buy a million-dollar castle in Hungary. Because Depression left him penniless, Kubelik is again fiddling in the U. S. this season. Last week he played with the Cincinnati Symphony, which had for the occasion a guest conductor-none other than Son Raffael...
...decrepit old London house live Julian, a brilliant young musician, his sinister old mother, and Something Else, that is kept shut in the attic. Julian plays the piano in the orchestra of a third-rate musical show, whose pretty leading lady is his fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life...
...Hollywood one evening last December Sidney & Doris Preisler went to the cinema. They had been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...