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When a full-time physician gives a violin concert, it's news. When he turns out to be a player of real stature, it's news indeed. This is precisely what happened yesterday afternoon at Paine Hall, where the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club presented the father-and-son team of violinist Jerome Gross, eminent Cleveland surgeon, and pianist David Gross, a Lowell House sophomore...
...dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script of a novel. And he has been doing this sort of thing for half of his life. Says Ustinov: "This talk of Wunderkind gets more intense as I grow older and the white hairs crop out in my beard...
Married. Michael Wilding, 45, British actor of stage (Nude with Violin) and screen (The Glass Slipper); and Susan Nell, 42, London interior decorator; he for the third time, she for the fourth; in Las Vegas...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN ''played the violin left-handed." He was "moody" and in his "black periods" would tell Dagmar of the poverty of his London childhood. He had loved "the little girl who lived next door [and] vowed that some day when he conquered the world, he would return and marry her . . . When he was well established, he returned to Whitechapel to claim his little bride. Just as he started to climb to her little room, a tiny white casket was carried down the stairs. . . . She had died of starvation while waiting for him." Charlie "would cry while telling...
...need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely. Until he arrived at the university he was educated in mediocre public schools, the whole of life to him lies in doddling with mathematics, and his idea of kicks is playing the violin. He is too undersized for athletics, has a horror, in fact, both of sports and drunken manly rough-housing, and his table manners, to put it kindly, are native. The girls he dates when he dates at all are dogs, his conversation, when he talks at all, is incessantly intellectual and hardly what...