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...Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take care of a burglar by jujitsu. Some times he sparred a few rounds with Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr. But since then, U.S. audiences have had few opportunities to watch his flying fingers and applaud his romantic 19th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pupil of Liszt | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Low Taste | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars worth of ancient Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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