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Married. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 51, only one of Mark Twain's four daughters to survive him; and Jacques Samossoud, 53, Russian-born conductor; in Hollywood. Her husband for 27 years was Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony's Russian-born pianist-conductor, who died...
...music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. Hence in Russia, Pique-Dame is popular. Hence in Manhattan, last week, many a Russian went to the season's first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...