Word: violiniste
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...trains exchange steam for electricity. The sprawling, bridge-playing, gin-drinking suburbs of New York have not yet entangled it. In Croton, seven years ago, settled Economist Stuart Chase, his wife Margaret Hatfield, Elizabeth Moos, a former teacher at Walden and other modern schools, and her husband Robert Imandt, violinist, onetime French Army man, camp director. Between them Miss Hatfield and Miss Moos had three children. They wanted to teach them. They went to it in a garage. Soon other families sent their children over. When the number grew to 16, Teachers Hatfield and Moos realized they had a School...
When he played in Berlin three years ago Yehudi Menuhin was 12, the same age as last week's performer, Violinist Ruggiero Ricci. But although his fingers were nimble, his bowing free, his tone surprisingly smooth, the little Italian boy did not cause Chancellor von Papen to arise and cheer or Albert Einstein to rush backstage. Ricci's playing used to have an emotional quality which made few critics hesitate to class him with Menuhin. Lawsuits followed in which his parents claimed that his guardian, Beth Lackey, was exploiting the boy. The courts returned him to the parents...
...entertainment business by forming an Amalgamated Broadcasting System, Inc., with offices in Manhattan. Its main purpose is to sell programs to advertising agencies and stations. Producer Arthur Hopkins (What Price Glory?, Paris Bound, Burlesque, The Jest) is associated with him, will obtain theatrical talent. Ota Gygi, a violinist, will handle the musical end. At the outset the company had $1,000,000 of business in hand but would reveal the names of no clients except The Texas Co. Both Mr. Wynn and Mr. Hopkins will continue their other theatrical work...
...Phillips scorned temperament, worked hard and methodically at the writing of his novels-with-a-purpose. His vigorous treatment of timely subjects-sins of society, political corruption, plutocratic greed-stirred controversy, made him a best seller. He had finished 20-odd books when one day in 1911 a crazed violinist named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough. who imagined the novelist had pilloried his sister in a story, pumped six bullets into Phillips' chest, abruptly ended this life-with-a-purpose...
Separated. Eleanor Boardman. film actress; from King Wallis Vidor, director, former husband of Florence Vidor who is now the wife of Jascha Heifetz, violinist; in Los Angeles...