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Such, or thereabouts, is Artur Rubinstein, Polish prodigy who has been a professional pianist for 42 of his 53 years. He is now on a 25-week tour. For pianistic form and box-office appeal, Rubinstein rates with the best of them-polished Josef Hofmann (56 years at the keyboard); titanic Sergei Rachmaninoff; glittering Vladimir Horowitz; sober Artur Schnabel; suave Walter Gieseking (now in Switzerland); rippling-fingered Moriz Rosenthal, 79-year-old pupil of Liszt...
...globetrotter, in one 13-month period Rubinstein gave 72 concerts in Europe, 60 in South America, took his wife and two children to Paris, went to Australia for 24 dates, to London, to the U.S. He has not played in Germany since 1914. His present home (his 32nd) is in Los Angeles...
...Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
Helena' Rubinstein, who operates a highly successful cosmetics business from New York to Bombay and has Prince Gourielli-Tchkonia of Georgia (U.S.S.R.) for a spouse, has probably never heard of Ora Gassaway...
Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, exposing her social consciousness, went to make a speech, but got lost on Long Island. Outside the swank Rubinstein store in Manhattan, picketers marched, chanting...