Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saint Exupery beside being a first class writer plays the violin well, draws well, plays chess well, is very gifted. Incidentally, I never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
Ernest Bloch: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting, with Joseph Szigeti; Columbia: 8 sides). Not for many years has 59-year-old musical Zionist Bloch wailed so fine a rhapsody. Violinist Szigeti gives his Oriental oratory superb diction...
Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 9 sides). One of the two or three violin concertos that rank with the greatest of symphonies. Magnificently recorded...
Golden Boy (Columbia) is not the first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never...
Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...