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MADAME, AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF HELENA RUBINSTEIN by Patrick O'Higgins. 296 pages. Viking...
...hero to his valet, per-haps no woman can be a heroine to her secretary. That, at least, might be one lesson to be derived from this colorful, bitchy, bizarre biography of the late Helena Rubinstein, written by the rather unctuous Irishman who served as her factotum for nearly 14 years...
...director of classical music and began applying his pop-oriented sales and packaging concepts to the company's Red Seal line. An engagingly brash, native New Yorker who got his start 22 years ago as a clerk in a Manhattan discount-record store, Munves approached Artur Rubinstein with the idea of a Rubinstein's greatest-hits LP. "You are a vampire," said the pianist, and refused. But Rubinstein did go along with a reassemblage of old items called The Chopin I Love. This month, Munves brought out eleven LPs in a new "Composers' Greatest Hits" series...
Awarded the prestigious Dutch Order of Orange Nassau in Amsterdam last week, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 85, declared: "I'm grateful, and happy, for the fact that you haven't had enough of me after 45 years." And he added generously: "Holland is one of the most musical countries in the world." Among those who obviously agree is another maestro-World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier, 27, who picked the Dutch city of Tilburg to open his European concert tour last week with his Knockouts and the Parkette Dancers...
...Rubinstein's observation has been echoed by many audiences, who find that the record of the score yields new rewards at each exposure. Far more than George Furth's book, Sondheim's lyrics express the hip, urbane tone of a play about an uncommitted bachelor who watches the games married people play. The songs are an ambush of witty skepticisms...