Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Love (Enterprise; United Artists) bounces a few echoes-but very faint ones-off Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Its heroine (Barbara Stanwyck), a great pianist exhausted by her trade, comes to a Swiss sanitarium for a rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...
...still rather cut off from America as far as exchange of musical talent is concerned, it is a good time to indulge in a little crystal gazing about the Continent's younger artists, many of whom will attempt American tours during the next two or three years. Of the pianists in this category, perhaps the most important is Rumanian Dinn Lipatti, a former pupil of Cortot and Stravinsky, who is nearing thirty. Although he is a regular professor at the Conservatory of Geneva, Lipatti has been spreading his rapidly growing reputation by exhaustive tours of Europe. Already an excellent technician...
...three other stories one concerns a frustrated pianist, and another a frustrated man who just sits in a cafe. The remaining story, by Miss Miriam Ginsberg, it is a pleasure to report, is humorous, and despite the very mild nature of its wit, her account of a girl's gym class seems practically uproarious when compared with the morose material which surrounds...
Andor Foldes, New York pianist, will present a concert of modern music at the Paine Music Building at 8:30 tonight in the first of two Department-sponsored programs this week. Sunday evening the California String Quartet will perform selections from Schubert, Barati, and Beethoven. Both concerts are open to the public and are free...
Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstängl, Hitler's onetime pianist-in-waiting, who spent most of the war in Allied hands, was back in Germany and suing the fatherland for damages. He had fled for his life in 1937, he told the Bavarian State Commission for Persecutees, and he wanted $16,150 compensation...