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...home, I was a different man. I loved the classics, but I knew I could wow any audience with De Falla's Fire Dance. I was too little involved in the job I had to do, which was to develop my talent." Then in 1926 he met Aniela ("Nela"), the handsome, honey-blonde daughter of Polish Conductor Emil Mlynarski. She was 17, he was 39. When he finally got around to proposing to her beneath the Chopin monument in Warsaw, Nela was doubtful. It seems that Rubinstein's lady of the moment, sensing a rival, had followed...
...soap operas) or go to the movies?any movie. He will practice scales in thirds under his hat while he watches the film, and in the taxi later, he will drum out the right-hand portion of a Chopin etude. Back at the hotel room, as Nela Rubinstein fiddles nervously with her gold necklace, her husband will warm up a bit at the piano...
Dick Barwise won the high jump when Dartmouth's highly-considered Nela Ehinger failed to clear six feet, two inches. Bob Mello outlasted Bob Lawwill to win the pole vault with an effort of 12 and one-half feet. Bob Pennell was third in the high jump, Sam Paschal in the vault...
...sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
...Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...