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...RUDOLF FIRKUSNY New York City March...
Billy Rose's syndicated column, "Pitching Horseshoes," was missing last week from the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 323,661). The censored column was an open letter to the Metropolitan Opera's general manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed...
When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought "big bravura playing" was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about the highest praise the New York Times could manage was that he "successfully held the attention of the audience." Firkusny, then 25-"much too young," he says now-tried a short U.S. tour without much more luck, then headed for home a little sadder and a great deal wiser...
...Firkusny began to come into his own. Last year he played in 50 U.S. cities; Carnegie Hall audiences heard him play five times within a month, with three major orchestras: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. Even the Times had decided that slender Rudolf Firkusny was "now an interpretive artist in his own right...
...Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing was fascinated."All I want to hear about," he told reporters, "is that wonderful cat named Bing." But Bing the cat was a oneday story. Bing the Metropolitan's manager-to-be, with some of the Met's furriest stars miaowing all around him, made news most of the week...