Word: violiniste
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Howard plays a successful violinist who, returning to his home in Sweden from an American concert tour, must find a new accompanist because his old one is about to retire. Who should turn up to fill the post but his little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...
...Wrote Violinist Schima Kaufman, doubling as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The hard-boiled orchestra members, who have played for every sort of celebrity from Presidents down, melted at her graciousness...
...laurels : Fritz Reiner, for conducting the Met's broadcast (over ABC) of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14); 30-year-old Leonard Bernstein, "best guest conductor"; and the Boston Pops' Arthur Fiedler, "best program conductor." Favorites in other musical fields: Contralto Marian Anderson, Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Organist E. Power Biggs...
Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...
Munch received an extensive musical education from his parents, but this was directed towards his becoming a violinist, not a conductor. It was not untill relatively late in life that he began to conduct. In 1919, Munch was appointed professor at the Conservatory and concertmaster of the Municipal Orchestra in his native city--Strasbourg. This orchestra is now conducted by his brother Fritz...