Word: violiniste
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...Forest Hills, N.Y., Violinist Stephan Hero, having settled his two children in his own folks' home, asked for and got police protection against "possible acts of reprisal." He had flown them from the Beverly Hills (Calif.) home of his father-in-law, Pianist Jose Iturbi, who used to fight him for the children's custody. (Mrs. Hero committed suicide last year.) Pianist Iturbi, in far-off Paris at the moment, had nothing to say to the press. Sighed his manager: "Mr. Iturbi is always haunted by his son-in-law's stories...
...Manno." If they learned nothing from his fine, sure beat, they learned something about making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said he: "I had to lie down for quite a while afterward before my strength came back...
...Factory. Isaac was born in Russia. But he did not go in lace and patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career...
Angel Standing By. It was a better notice than most 17-year-olds get. More important, Isaac's angels were still with him. "I know today that I would not be a violinist if I had not had sponsors. I would have gone back like the others to be a good or bad teacher, or to play in an orchestra...
...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...