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$500,000 Film Offer Spurned by Menuhin

May 26, 1935
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Yehudi Menuhin, the American-Jewish violin prodigy, who is now in Australia, today refused an offer of $500,000 to appear in an American film for Paramount.

“The art of my son is not for sale,” the father of the young violinist replied to the Paramount.

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