Word: toscanini
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...newspapermen everywhere may with profit study the candor and simplicity with which this artist, alert and at all times objectively interested, sets down such minutiae as the differences in the cigar-smoking of Calvin Coolidge (knife and holder) and Herbert Hoover (fingernails and teeth), or the lineaments of Toscanini's left hand...
...never published.) When he had finished the crowd stood cheering for 20 minutes. After the performance Albert Einstein rushed up to him with tears in his eyes. At the great Augusteo Theatre in Rome this winter 20 windows were broken by the crowds trying to get in. Arturo Toscanini, who has called Menuhin's playing "divine," gave him a little bronze head of himself which Yehudi takes everywhere he goes...
...Supervia's Orpheus is probably the bulkiest, most troublesome talisman on record. But nearly all musicians are superstitious, carry some sort of charm. Arturo Toscanini keeps sewed in his dress clothes' pocket a picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano...
Last week's performance attracted unusual attention because it was Walter's Philharmonic debut, his first attempt to please a public still hypnotized by the beauty of the farewell concerts Arturo Toscanini gave, the pain in his right arm apparent to everyone who watched...
Because Walter was the man chosen as most worthy to relieve Toscanini, no audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing...