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Palace & Circus. By the time Producer Sam Zimbalist and Stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor arrived, Nero's Rome was as lavish as the original. Some 3,000 Italian workmen were putting the last careful touches on a mammoth reproduction of Nero's palace and a wooden replica of the Emperor's circus. A facsimile of the slimy, green-watered River Tiber had been dug, and for the single scene to be shot outside Cinedtta, a section of the Appian Way had been repaved...
...Composer Menotti had let two Broadway neophytes named Chandler Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., both 28, convince him that they could make The Medium a success on the Main Stem...
Since his experiences with the Metropolitan, Menotti has always insisted on doing his own staging and directing. ("As stage director I am always faithful to the composer.") In Cowles and Zimbalist...
When Rafael was bora in 1914, Jan Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour...
Daughter of a wealthy Chicago grocer and widow of a distinguished Chicago surgeon, Mrs. Coolidge* is something of an amateur of music herself. She has played the piano in informal recitals with violinists like Kneisel and Zimbalist. Five years ago, at 79, she amazed her friends by sitting in with the Kolisch Quartet at the Library of Congress, to play Schumann's Quintet for Piano and Strings. Last year one of her own trios, written in 1930, was performed at the Library...