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Maestro Leopold Stokowski and wife Gloria were also attracting attention with their music: the tabloid Daily Mirror breathlessly reported that "neighbors have heard loud quarrels and the noise of thrown dishes...
...conduct in the Hollywood Bowl. . . . But I couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist. They really don't go to hear Iturbi the pianist. They go to see Iturbi the movie star...
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...
...years older than her stepmother, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski...
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...