Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accented Rests. George Antheil is a cello-sized man with blond hair and childlike blue eyes. He was born 43 years ago in Trenton, N.J. where his father still runs Antheil's ("A Friendly Shoe Store"). An infant prodigy composer and pianist, George went to Europe at the age of 20, and stayed there for nearly 15 years. During his expatriation, he concertized widely, married a niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. His eccentric compositions such as Ballet Mecanique, written for an orchestra of sixteen mechanical pianos accompanied by the whirring of electric motors, made him Europe...
Florida Peach. Nothing in Frances Langford's 29 years prepared her for her sweetheart role. Daughter of a Lakeland, Fla., building contractor and a concert pianist, she wanted to be an opera singer but not enough − the formalities bored...
...into politics as Wilson's supporter, made Liberty Loan speeches, drilled with voice specialists, wrote the short stories and novels that made her fortune: Just Around the Corner, Every Soul Hath Its Song, Land of the Free, Gaslight Sonatas, Humoresque. Her 1915 marriage to Pianist Jacques Danielson was kept secret until 1920, then made a newspaper sensation when Author Hurst announced that she and her husband kept separate apartments. She traveled in Europe, made three visits to Russia, came back enthusiastic. Said she: "Pervading all the youth there is a superb arrogance. It is a country where...
...Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely piano pounder in a black turtleneck sweater did not drink much (nor does he to this day, save occasionally, out of politeness...
...were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives...