Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-19 | Page 4 | In New York

IN NEW YORK 1 By P PAUL UL HARRISON NEW YORK Sept 19 19 This ThU Jose Iturbi Spanish pianist conductor who has taken Mexico and New York by bythe bythe bythe the cars looks and acts so little like a musician that he sometimes has trouble getting past the doorman at athis athis athis his own concerts He is 38 now and calming down a n little but he still likes to box and fastest cars and go out on late parties All his managers have had a chronic case of ot jitters b because cause of what boxing io is likely to do to his hands Iturbi just laughs and says that he always wanted to be a conductor anyway and that a broken fist wouldn't keep him front Irom holding a baton He had a rather unorthodox begInning beginning begin begIn- ning for a great artist spent artist spent pent most of his youth playing In movie houses and cafes in Switzerland At 20 he got gota ot ota a job playing in iii a hotel in Zurich where he attracted so much attention attention attention atten atten- tion that the Conservatory of Geneva offered him a job on its piano faculty Iturbi had had little formal instruction Mon tion so 80 he didn't know much about teaching at first but he stayed six years Iturbi is breathlessly enthusiastic about thin things American likes jazz music music music mu mu- sic and spends occasional evenings in Harlem when hen he lie is in town A French concern makes a sp special ial perfume for his use and anybody who sneers about it Is likely to get a poke in the eye a x A REAL PLAY PLAYBOY BOY When Iturbi was here first in 1929 he was taken up by the Kahns the Adolf and others of ot the high-hat high musical crowd But he didn't enjoy them much because when he isn't playing he doesn't like to talk taUt about music just wants to be gay Hes He's on his way back to Europe now having promised to return this fall taU for a long American tour S S 9 SANDWICH WOMEN There i. i is a high premium on originality orIginality or or- even in the sign carrying business Ordinary those pathetically hopeless looking outers down who trudge the sidewalks encased ed in a couple of miniature billboards are paid at most mosta a dollar a day and some of them 75 and even 50 cents The blue eagle hasn't heard about them yet yet A woman though can cart make a very fair living at the dreary work especially especially espe espe- daIly i if she's pretty The sheer novelty novelty nov nov- elty of ot a sandwich girl there are arc only three or four of them about town I always attracts plenty of ot s stares stare es an comment The only one of or them who has really gotten S up in n the world is Mi Miss Beno She goes goe about on or Miss Mi Kalister is 18 and came fr John Johnstown town Pa last winter to work a a stenographer Jobs were so scarce scree i though that she was vas about to sp spend spend her last few dollars for a ticket home borne when she met mel a n young man who has ha been walking stilt-walking for tor YC years and doIng do do- ing very well at it She learned how hay to walk too and they went k into partnership and have been much in demand ever since Its It's strenuous work and they C can ln keep at it only four hours a day But the pay I is 12 13 a day each which is better than t th tha blue eagle cagle has done for tor stenographers