Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...void, it is still yawning. Show's first issue offers the less than startling news that lower production costs could cure Broadway's ills and that ABC-Television is run by men with the creative imagination of soap salesmen; it profiles such familiar figures as Artur Rubinstein and Orson Welles; and it reintroduces that familiar technique in newsgathering-the taped interview. Show says it seeks "a limited quality audience," and the preponderance of ads from Manhattan stores and restaurants indicates that the audience may be limited indeed...
...Freedom Ride. Brash, athletic Presbyterian Minister Bill Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has never lacked for privileges of his own (his father was vice president of Manhattan's high-priced home furnishings store, W. & J. Sloane). He is married to the actress daughter of Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Coffin majored in government at Yale, served as a liaison officer with French and Russian troops during World War II, later worked as a Russian expert for the Central Intelligence Agency after studying divinity at Union Theological Seminary, where his uncle, Henry Sloane Coffin, was a longtime president. Coffin made it clear...
...ball for the benefit of Polish refugees, Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, better known as Cosmetics Queen Helena Rubinstein, was joined by her old friend and near neighbor on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Pianist Artur Rubinstein. After the ball was over, Helena, ageless but eightyish, commented on her distant cousin: "I told his wife, 'The older he gets, the better he gets.' " What did she and Rubinstein, 72 this week, talk about? "A lot of nonsense...
...girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet, the long evening ends with a flourish-figure skaters on a rink the size of the late Serge Rubinstein's bed. Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room, the show seems gay and sexy, but when seen close up, the picture dissolves into the depressing details-forced smiles, smudged and sweating faces, bruises under torn...
...fiddle." But when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...