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Except for the Martha interlude, the music is the last complete score done by the late George Gershwin. (He was working on tunes for the Goldwyn Follies when he died last summer.) Brother Ira Gershwin did the lyrics. Catchiest number: Nice Work...
...Married. Ira Arthur Hirschmann. 35, vice president of Saks-Fifth Avenue (Manhattan department store); to Pianist Hortense Monath, 29. with whose aid Hirschmann launched the New Friends of Music (TIME, Nov. 15); by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, in Miss Monath's Manhattan apartment...
Much against advice of wiseacres, who said he would lose his shirt. Ira Arthur Hirschmann, music-loving vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store, last year founded the New Friends of Music. Its purpose: to give Manhattanites the very best in chamber music, played by the very best artists (TIME, Nov. 16). Before selling a ticket for his series of 16 Sunday concerts, Mr. Hirschmann boldly took on some $9,000 worth of contracts with artists and Town Hall. The season over, astute Friend of Music Hirschmann could grin at calamity-howlers...
Pianist Monath collaborated with Ira Hirschmann from the founding of the New Friends, last week was about to become his bride. The programs which she planned for him last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities...
...various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into action...