Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balloon Wanted. For 18 years the temperamental Baron has been a luxurious virtuoso among fashion photographers in the U.S. George Hoyningen-Huene was born in imperial St. Petersburg, the son of a Baltic nobleman and an American woman from Detroit. The Hoyningen-Huene family title dates from the 12th Century. During the Russian Revolution young Huene studied in England. After the Armistice he joined the British Army and served in South Russia...
Editor Chase's staff includes some men-a couple of art directors, several photographers and famed esthetic Virtuoso Frank Crowninshield, who was editor of C. N.'s now defunct Vanity Fair and who is now a C. N. "editorial adviser." But Vogue is chiefly run by women, most of whom keep their hats on daylong as they work, thus give the appearance of being ready to take flight at any moment for some chichi affair...
...Iago, José Ferrer was no longer dwarfed by Robeson, but a proper foil. Too mild a villain last year from not wanting to be too melodramatic a one, Ferrer now is supple, mettlesome, lightly Mephistophelean-a virtuoso who lays bare the workings of Iago's fiendish mind, though not the mainsprings of his enigmatic nature...
...savory, romantic portrait of the cello virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky won first prize last week at Pittsburgh's annual Carnegie Institute Exhibition, wartime successor to the famed Carnegie International show. The $1,000 prize winner is by 60-year-old, Indiana-born Wayman Adams, since 1926 a member of the archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack...
Unlike most popular songwriters, 47-year-old Lecuona is also a virtuoso concert pianist and a composer of symphonic music. Son of a Havana newspaperman, he began composing at the age of eleven with a two-step called Cuba Y America. Cuban military bands still play it. A boyhood star at Havana's National Conservatory under Composer Joaquin Nin, Lecuona organized his own band and appeared in Havana's movie houses in long trousers borrowed from an older friend. At 21 he traveled to the U.S. and made player-piano rolls of his early hits...