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...Your Excellency, I am 73 years old!" cried Director Vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, one-time Italian Ambassador to the U. S. and now a senator, dealing with Il Duce. "Surely, on account of my age-entirely on account of my age-I should resign...
...Ricci Abroad...
When he played in Berlin three years ago Yehudi Menuhin was 12, the same age as last week's performer, Violinist Ruggiero Ricci. But although his fingers were nimble, his bowing free, his tone surprisingly smooth, the little Italian boy did not cause Chancellor von Papen to arise and cheer or Albert Einstein to rush backstage. Ricci's playing used to have an emotional quality which made few critics hesitate to class him with Menuhin. Lawsuits followed in which his parents claimed that his guardian, Beth Lackey, was exploiting the boy. The courts returned him to the parents...
...year-old son of Teacher Louis Persinger. played the violin in a Mozart program. "My son," announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like his father's pupils, Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin. But he plays now in a sturdy, forthright fashion more illustrative of expert teaching than of inspiration...
...Manhattan Grisha Goluboff, 9, of San Francisco, played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto so deftly that critics spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child...