Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop...
...growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...
...sailing for Europe was Fabien Sevitzky, nephew of Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky who dropped the first four letters of his name some years ago so that his career would not be just a pale reflection of his illustrious uncle's. Sevitzky, like Koussevitzky, is a double-bass virtuoso; like his uncle exceedingly handsome, well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years he has conducted...
...left him overnight an established orchestral conductor. The Hungarian dentist had been to hear famed Jeno Hubay, decided that he wanted a son named Jeno who would also play the violin. The son was born with a prodigious talent for music, at 4 was able to correct an experienced virtuoso for playing an F sharp instead of an F natural, at 7 was playing in public...
Pierre Belcroix (Earle Larimore), a journeyman musician, and his wife Romaine (Edna Best) are visited by an eminent amorist and violinist, Marcel Blanc (Mr. Rathbone). In no time at all the ancient triangle situation develops. As the curtain falls on Act I there is a charming scene in the virtuoso's apartment, with Miss Best lying in Mr. Rathbone's arms and humming Lehar's "Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz." In Act II, however, the affair becomes less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor...