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...play the piano in every country of the world but two," Artur Rubinstein often says. "Tibet, because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...
Last week, without violating his oath, Rubinstein dominated the news in the German music press. In the Dutch border town of Nijmegen, the pianist played to a hall full of Germans, and as all who attended had foreseen, there was more in the air than just music. For the 1,000 Germans who crossed the border of Ru binstein's conscience, the recital was a stirring but pleasant penance-a chance to listen to a great Jewish pianist play Beethoven. For Rubinstein, it was a delicate compromise, a gesture of understanding, a test of the heart...
...indictment for fraud. Birrell was then in control of United Dye, but he needed someone to give him a clean front. He saw in Dardi qualities that he admired; for one thing, Dardi had been involved in some business deals with another Birrell crony, brilliant and amoral Financier Serge Rubinstein (who was later mysteriously strangled in his luxurious home on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue). Dardi snapped up Birrell's offer to him to become chairman of United...
Manhattan's seventh annual Polonaise Ball was a little bit of Old Warsaw on Old Park Avenue. The Old Warsaw Orchestra played the Krakowiak, and nearly everybody was there: Mrs. Artur Rubinstein, Mrs. Artur Rodzinski, Vera Zorina
...network. At show's end, St. Laurent crept down from the head of the stairs, where he had crouched like a small boy peeking at a grownups' ball, to be smothered in the embrace of celebrities and clients like Dancer Jeanmaire, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, Cosmetologist Helena Rubinstein. His designs, basically for the young and slim, are lean and tubular, shaped by precision seams, not spectacular but consistently the loveliest...