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...Kelly needed further soothing, his musical got eight other top awards, for best picture, best story and screenplay, best musical score (in a musical), best sets, best (color) art direction, best (color) costume design, best color photography. Its Producer Arthur Freed won the prized Thalberg Award for merit...
...Darryl F. Zanuck, his third Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, for "consistent high-quality production in the last three years" (making a total of nine 1950 awards for 20th Century-Fox); Louis B. Mayer, a special award, for 44 years of pioneer work in the industry...
Schary's personal productions (Battleground, The Next Voice You Hear) proved box-office hits, and the quality of MGM's whole output improved-though not enough to qualify Schary as "a new Irving Thalberg," as his admirers like to call...
Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
...great night, the glittering audience found six pianos on the stage. First Liszt, nostrils quivering and long locks tossing,* thundered and rippled an introduction and the theme from I Puritani. Then the pianistically mannered Thalberg played his variation; Liszt provided a transition to the offering of Pixis; Herz came next, then Czerny, whose knuckle-cracking exercises have been the nemesis of piano students for the last hundred years. Liszt, from his piano, interjected a Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except...