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...like Rodzinski and Beecham for the interminable Golschmanns, Smalleness, and Von Hoogstrateus, (who obviously have only got their jobs through Curuegie Hall politics), would take the curse off a concert without soloists, and the public might begin to go in for Brahms and Becthoven a little more, Hcifetz and Rubinstein a little less...
Said Paderewski: "When I miss practice one day, I know it; when I miss two days, my wife knows it; when I miss three days, the public knows it." When Paderewski practiced, he had no peer, and only the late, mighty Liszt and Rubinstein ever equaled him at a piano...
Following their contest last week which decided the "Most Unglamorous Chorus Girl of 1941, "Hasty Pudding chorines were made-up by an expert from the Helene Rubinstein Studios, who had boasted that they "could make any women beautiful...
...final concerts Pianist Artur Rubinstein, an early admirer of Villa-Lobos. played apiece called Rudepôema ("Savage Poem") which Villa-Lobos had intended to be both a portrait of the pianist and the most difficult piano work ever composed. Whether or not its brilliantly wham-banging measures actually portrayed mild-looking Mr. Rubinstein, Rudepôema sounded like a stumper for any virtuoso...
Window dressers twisted the work of dozens of living and dead painters into ads to catch the feminine shopper's eye. Their displays were painted and draped to resemble Gauguins, Bonnards, Utrillos, Chiricos, Redons, Vlamincks. Helena Rubinstein's famed beauty salon decked itself with Picasso, Manet and Rembrandt windows, including living female models who held poses as painted portraits for 15 minutes at a stretch. Finally Bonwit Teller went everybody else one better...