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...Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...Sonya, the daughter of a middle-class Siberian gold-mine manager, possessed a bourgeois ambition that even the terrors of the October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...
...nothing ever comes of it. Either the Neva is frozen, or I meet somebody I know on the way and so am forced to put it off." Problem in Selection. Sonya Shostakovich's maternal solicitude for Mitya, who was a frail youth afflicted with tuber ulosis, bordered on mania. "Suppose the ceiling of our house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya...
When Dmitri Shostakovich finally got married, it was almost over solicitous Sonya's dead body. But Dmitri nevertheless grew to be a mildly self-assertive scholarly-looking young man, who could play the piano as well as anybody in Russia, and whose enormous talents as a symphonic composer were soon to set the world by the ears...