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...David Rubinoff, Schmaltz King of the fiddle, saw the special nightmare of Stradivarius owners come true: while he was preparing to play in Columbus, Ohio, his 213-year-old Strad (insured for $100,000) fell out of its case and broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: History Makers | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...David Rubinoff, veteran king of the shmaltz fiddlers, was sued for $50,000 by a Chicagoan who charged the sad-eyed violinist with alienating his late wife's affections back in the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...ruled the commission. The workers' C. I. O. union appealed. Referee Charles Rubinoff in Detroit last week divided the 50,000 into deserving sheep, undeserving goats. He decreed that the 27,000 nonstriking but idle sheep had no "direct interest" in the strike, therefore were entitled to some $3,000,000 in benefit payments. For the remaining 23,000, Mr. Rubinoff ruled: no money, no subsidy to Labor strife from the State of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sheep, Goats | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Comedian Gregory Ratoff, concerns the ambition of fluffy Judith Poe Wells (Alice Faye) to write a searching play, one thing never achieved by her illustrious great grandfather Edgar Allan Poe.* When penniless Miss Wells consumes three orders of spaghetti in a Broadway restaurant, the proprietor and his violinist (Rubinoff) let her sing for her supper. That is enough to convince Diner George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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