Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish consulates in France for visas, numbers of Europe's homeless royalty hurried across the Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist...
...liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. She now studies at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan...
...Pianist Schuyler has given concerts in auditoriums and theatres since she was six, has engagements this summer in Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Atlantic City. Her mother, whom she calls "Jody," sold the idea of Philippa Schuyler Day to the World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...
Filling in for Fibber McGee and Molly last year, blind Pianist Alec Templeton made such a hit that he was signed by Alka-Seltzer in September. Last year The Aldrich Family, after a spell on Kate Smith's show, substituted for Jack Benny, wound up with a winter spot...
Decca turned out an album by Art Tatum, blind pianist extraordinaire, last week. This reviewer still stubbornly insists that Tatum is not such a terrific piano man, that he doesn't have taste, fluent ideas, or touch, though he does have enormous techniques. Trumpeteer Roy Eldridge thinks he's the greatest around. Listen for yourself and see whether you think it's meaningless runs or inspired genius...