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David Rubinoff was born in 1897 in Russia. He started playing the violin at the

age of five and performed with the Russian Army Band. He graduated from the

Warsaw Conservatory at the age of eleven and was

“

discovered

”

by Victor

Herbert who brought him and his family to America. With the help of Rudy

Vallee he got into radio and subsequently the movies. He entertained troops

during the wars and performed for Presidents. He married four times with the

fourth being at the age of seventy-five. He died in 1986.

In the 1930s he was a regular on the Chase and Sanborn Radio Hour. He was also

an orchestra conductor and appeared on shows with Eddie Cantor and Jimmy

Durante.

When Linda Thompson

Worley

‟

s mother attended a

Rubinoff concert at William

Penn Auditorium May 16, 1963,

she came home with an

autographed program.