Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When young Yehudi Menuhin went out into the world to give the violin recitals which made his name great and his family independent, his mother vowed that there would be no more prodigies in the family, that her daughters Hephzibah and Yaltah would remain at home with her. Last year Hephzibah, who at 15 is an expert pianist, made phonograph records with Yehudi of Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42) which took the prize for being the best made in France in 1933. Hephzibah's playing for the records was so skillfully mature that people began...
...became an actor in 1923 when the comedian in the preceding skit deserted his show. Now married to a onetime chorus girl named Eleanor May Vogt, he has an Episcopal minister named Henry Scott Rubel write his songs. Nervous, shy and solemn in private life, he plays the violin, likes to make things with tools, hopes some day to be a dramatic writer...
...music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course of study he spent a year in Berlin, two years in Vienna. The impressions soon faded. At 27 he was back in Helsingfors teaching violin and theory at the local conservatory. Five years later the Finnish Government subsidized him so that he could give all his time to composition...
Francis Lederer and Joan Bennett by the leading bundlers in this intelligent sparkling comedy that pokes fun at No England's blue laws of Revolutionary days. Leaderer, a violin-playing Hessics soldier deserts the English forces and turns up in Miss Bennett's barn milking a cow. He is taken a prisoner of war, but this hinders him very little first gazing soulfully into Jean's eyes or from playing the piano and singing romantic songs to her, or indeed from leaving the confinement one wintry night and bundling with her in the parlor...
...lean, ebullient girl with a long, inquisitive nose and an assertive chin. Born in Canada, educated in California, naturalized a U. S. citizen, she has studied the violin for four years in Germany. With her German-born mother and younger sister, she has roamed the fringes of Berlin's international society, having a lovely time, not in the least shy of discussing her opinions of Nazi Germany with all comers. She wrote little articles and translations for a few German papers voicing what she called "honest criticism about this or that." She dashed off long chatty letters...