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...Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives recording. Born Rose Kefer in Manhattan 25 years ago of musician parents (her father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married a theatrical scene designer, is now divorced. She is domestic, practical, thrifty; makes her own clothes, cooks well. She is a competent horsewoman, swimmer, diver...
Bach's Arioso and Granados' Goyescas Intermezzo by Felix Salmond (Columbia, $1.25)-'Cellist Salmond makes a particularly neat arrangement of the Intermezzo to which La Argentina does one of her most seductive dances...
Brahms' Double Concerto in A Minor by Violinist Jacques Thibaud, 'Cellist Pablo Casals and the Pablo Casals Orchestra of Barcelona under Alfred Cortct (Victor, $10)-Brahms last orchestral work, rarely played because of its technical difficulties, is given a superb per- formance by an unsurpassed triumvirate...
Schubert's Concerto in A Minor by 'Cellist Caspar Cassado and Symphony Orchestra under Sir Hamilton Harty (Columbia, $6)-A compatriot and pupil of Famed Pablo Casals contributes an excellent arrangement of a sonata written for piano and arpeggione (string instrument between a viola and a 'cello in size; invented in Vienna in Schubert's day' seldom played...
...Manhattan last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini abruptly stilled the applause which followed a Smetana symphonic poem, tapped on a cellist's stand for attention and, instead of two trifling Mendelssohn pieces listed on the program, played with his Philharmonic-Symphony the tremendous, soaring funeral march from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. In Philadelphia, St. Louis, Berlin and a score more music centres, were similar scenes and sounds, a world-wide requiem by Wagner...