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...ADMITTANCE signs plastered the doors of a room on S. S. Ile de France in mid-Atlantic. Behind the doors were famed Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 15. Every day while Yehudi played, Toscanini turned pages. One evening Conductor Toscanini presented Yehudi in the first-class salon as sole performer in the ship's concert. The boy had consented to play on condition that everyone aboard be permitted to attend. Proceeds: 40,000 francs...
...your issue of TIME dated Feb. 22 you state in your article called "Fiddler Growing Up" on p. 40 that "Yehudi Menuhin is 15," you continue to say on p. 42, "He demanded an automobile license, too, last spring, got it in California by taking a test on San Francisco's busy Market Street...
...familiar with Russian politics, testifying that he has aided in some social movement like the abolition of illiteracy or alcoholism. The Government then advertises him in simple, forthright fashion. He may not call himself ''World's Greatest Tenor" as does Beniamino Gigli or "Famous Boy Violin Genius'' as does Yehudi Menuhin. Tickets for his concert will cost anywhere from 7¢ to 25¢. Factory workers then get a 60% reduction...
Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was composing a concerto, spilling ink all over himself. He was not quite six when his father, a Salzburg violinist, bundled him and his sister Nannerl into a coach, started showing them off to the rest of Europe...
Less intelligent parents might have ruined the boy. But the Menuhins were wise enough to know that Yehudi was not ready to be marketed. They allowed him only one public appearance a year until he was nine, then two a year until he was twelve. They have had able tutors for him and his sisters Hepzibah & Yaltah. He is good at mathematics and history. He knows five languages: Hebrew, which he spoke before English, French, German, Italian. He has been kept out of doors so that he could learn to swim and play tennis. Even now he goes...