Word: yehudi
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...timing, intonation and repetition which made Jerry Colonna's "Who's Yehudi?" funny to U.S. audiences is a rough U.S. equivalent of ITMA's appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in C Minor (Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Hephzibah Menuhin, piano; Victor, 8 sides). The first 5,000 of these albums were erroneously labeled Sonata No. 2; red-faced Victor is now trying to correct its wrong red labels. Under either label it is the Seventh, and an agile brother & sister act. Performance: excellent...
...Yehudi Menuhin, given a 90-day draft deferment last May to play for troops in Europe, was finally ordered to report for induction. Before the onetime boy prodigy, now 29, finished packing his bags, he got new tidings: the Army had stopped inducting anybody over...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...Yehudi Menuhin, back in Manhattan from a Latin American concert tour, recalled playing for an hour in his undershirt in broiling Trinidad, mastering some short-haired music for a concert at the Army base in San Juan. The shorthair number was St. Louis Blues. "I practiced and I got pretty good," he said. He played it on his Guarnerius instead of the Strad, because the former "had a more earthy, a more contralto quality...