Word: virtuoso
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...Today these are within the range of virtuoso violinists. This month Victor is issuing Volume I of a complete recording of the Caprices, by Ossy Renardy, 19-year-old Viennese prodigy...
Benito Mussolini is still a virtuoso of politics, a wizard with economic and military gadgets, an athlete, a leader of men. It makes him very sad that no one, not even his beloved countrymen, pays much attention to him as he clatters eagerly up & down Europe's sideline, warming up. They believe that if he gets into the game at all it will be just long enough to win his letter...
...Mickey's coetanes are equally fond of him. It is no secret that between Master Rooney and Master Jackie Cooper (another virtuoso of swing) no love is lost. When Dead End Kids Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell got to Hollywood, both offered to fight Mickey immediately...
...spirituals at funerals, then switched to the piano when he heard a male pianist at the French Opera House. Until then he had assumed that the piano was a woman's instrument. He took some lessons at a Catholic school, but considers his real mentor an eight-fingered virtuoso named Mamie Desdume, "good-natured, a fine dresser, and extremely popular with the sporting crowd." Mamie played the first blues Jelly ever heard, and she is gratefully recalled in the album by Mamie's Blues...
...signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Oscar...