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Order direct.] raiigiij The Untold Sacrifices Rubinoff Can Never Repay (Continued from page 33) BOOK IN COLOR Mail Coupon or 1c Postal OLSON RUG CO. CHICAGO NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO Mail to 2800 N. Crawford Ave., Chicago, Dept. A-51 YES, send me FREE and postpaid, your moneysaving book "Beautiful New Bugs from Old." Name Address _ © 1937 Town State one enthusiastic teacher put him in the orchestra of the local army garrison. It was Rose again who was called upon to make the miniature uniform — heavy gray wool, with embroidered high-necked blouse, Russian style, and rows of bright brass buttons. Rose had to make him three heavy undershirts, too — not for warmth, but so that the eight-year-old musician should look a little less puny and under-sized among the soldiers, three and four times his age, with whom he played. Then came Herman Rubinoff with his contribution to the success of his brother. Alone and unassisted, he came to America to provide an opportunity for David. He calls himself "the Columbus of the Rubinoff s." But when the Immigration Society picked him up at Ellis Island, with a dollar and a half in his pocket, he didn't feel much like an explorer. He felt just like a lonely, discouraged kid. He wanted a job. He had to have a job to keep from starving. So he sat on the steps outside the Immigration Society home, watching for somebody to come along who wanted to hire a boy. Finally a couple did come along, looking for a grocery boy and Herman persuaded them to take him. Four months he worked for them out in Brooklyn. ' They paid him $27.00. Twenty-four of that went back to Russia to pay his brother Charley's steerage passage over. Things were no easier after Charley came. The two boys got jobs in New Haven, Charley working in a carriage factory for a dollar a week, and Herman learning to be a pastry cook in the commissary at Yale for eight dollars a week. They worked drudgingly hard, and it wasn't much fun. They tried to save enough money to bring the rest of the family over, but they just weren't making enough. So Herman set out for more prosperous territory, and wound up in Pittsburgh. The World Series was on when he got there — it was the year the Pirates beat Detroit — and there were crowds of strangers in town. It was easy for him to get jobs for both Charley and himself in hotels. Then, by being just as careful as they could, they managed to save enough to send for their parents and Dave and Rose and Phil. THE day the family landed, both Charley and Herman lost their jobs. In the midst of their discouragement they listened to Dave play his violin, and saw a ray of hope. It was the summer season, and Herman figured that if there was any place the child would get a chance to play, it was in Atlantic City. So they took Dave there. And Charley and Herman both got jobs in hotels all right, but they couldn't afford to keep Dave. They had to sneak him into their rooms at the hotels at night — Charley one night and Herman the next. Then one night they put David in an amateur contest at the old Savoy Theater, and he won the first prize — $5.00! That was the beginning of Dave's career. It was people like that who have made possible Dave Rubinoff's success of today. And Rubinoff has not forgotten. No man could have remembered more keenly nor repaid more fully all those past sacrifices that were made for him. Today his parents can look back on their cheerless basement quarters in Grodno from the beautiful living room of the fine new house Dave has bought for them in Pittsburgh. There is an Oriental rug in the living room, a big divan and easy chairs of rustcolored velour. The dining room furniture is of heavy oak, the chairs upholstered in ruby red velour. The kitchen is equipped with the latest in electric refrigeration and enameled ranges. All the household accounts are handled in Rubinoff's New York office so that his father and mother are spared the slightest worry or fear. Two years ago when both the old people were sick, Dave and his younger brother Phil flew to Pittsburgh, took their parents to the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and, after they were better, sent them to Florida for the winter. In Latrobe, Pennsylvania, one of the smartest dress shops is called the "Rose Style Shop." The "Rose" stands for Rose Rubinoff Buchmann, and it was brother Dave who bought the shop for her. In Rose's home in Latrobe, she will show you a beautiful grand piano, an elaborate radio, an electric ice box — and tell : you proudly that they are all presents from Dave. UER daughter Harriet wears a fur coat, ** soft and rich and regal, that was a gift from Uncle David. Her son Harold has the violin which Dave brought with him to America, a parting present from Gottfried. He can play it, too; Uncle David took care of his musical education. Rose herself owes her life to Dave. It was two years ago, and Rose lay in a hospital in Philadelphia, injured almost beyond recognition as the result of an automobile accident. She had just enough energy left to request that they get in touch with her brother David Rubinoff. At first the doctors did not believe her. They thought delirium was giving her the illusion that she was the sister of the famous violinist. But they were finally persuaded to phone Rubinoff on the Coast where he was playing in the picture "Thanks a Million." Back over the wire came Dave's voice. "She is my only sister," he said. "You must save her. I don't care if it takes every cent I have. You must save her!" Today Rose is alive and well again, thanks to Dave. And Herman? Herman has three children now. The younger boy is a violin student and the girl a piano student. The older boy is registered at the University of Pittsburgh. Who pays the bills? Herman's brother Dave. Herman, too, has his own bakery supply business, serene in the knowledge that he can always count on Dave's help. Nor are the other members of the family forgotten. . Phil is now Dave's manager. He is also an excellent violinist, for David sent him to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music to study. Charley is now a lawyer in Detroit. A while ago he ran for a local judgeship. And it was Dave who took care of his campaign expenses. Even Dave's old Russian teacher is not forgotten. Every month, from the Rubinoff office in New York, an envelope addressed to Max Gottfried is mailed to Grodno. In it is a substantial check. But none of these things is in any respect just the acknowledgment of a recognized debt. They are the expression of a feeling that goes as deep as family ties are deep — the feeling that made Dave's family proud and happy to make those early sacrifices for him. And that makes 68