Word: yehudi
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...just a vaudeyille show, however there are some bits well worth seeing. Katherine Cornell's three-minute stint is good, Yehudi Menuhin is excellent, Benny Goodman's vocalist makes with the eyes and torse in a delightful way, and so on down the line to Kay Kyser's nauseating gyrations...
...Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
...Back from a month's concert tour of England was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin with a different report. The entertainment at the camps there, he said, was too "light and trivial . . . the soldiers need inspiration, need more than a joke"-serious music...
Sopranos Frieda Hempel, Maria Jeritza; Contraltos Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer; Baritone Reinald Werrenrath; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, 20, Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...