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...manage the crowds and more than 500 clamoring New Yorkers were turned from the doors. Inside Manhattan's Town Hall last week the most curious audience of the musical season had gathered to hear Hephzibah Menuhin, 15, play piano and violin sonatas with her prodigious brother Yehudi...
...that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise her youth. She walked straight to the piano, bent over the keyboard, never raised her eyes to the audience...
With the difficult music both were perfectly at ease. The Mozart was graceful and fleet, though Yehudi's tone was sometimes sleazy. The Schumann was richly romantic, the Beethoven flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance...
When young Yehudi Menuhin went out into the world to give the violin recitals which made his name great and his family independent, his mother vowed that there would be no more prodigies in the family, that her daughters Hephzibah and Yaltah would remain at home with her. Last year Hephzibah, who at 15 is an expert pianist, made phonograph records with Yehudi of Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42) which took the prize for being the best made in France in 1933. Hephzibah's playing for the records was so skillfully mature that people began...
...grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina, Olga Preobrajenska. Baronova's technic is amazing. She can do 32 spins (fouettés) without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Author Haskell prides himself on his collection of ballet slippers, although as a balletomaniac he pales beside a St. Petersburg clique which paid $175 for a pair of Taglioni's, had them cooked, prepared with a special sauce and ate them at a banquet...