Uncertain of how to proceed, Grisha Goluboff's parents asked a lawyer, Mr Isadore Nobel, for advice. He became Grisha's guardian and companion. When Henry Ford heard the little boy playing he gave him a Stradivarius violin plus a limousine to get about in. He sounds like a well adjusted boy, with varied interests such as soccer, photography and astronomy! If you are interested you can see and hear him play the violin on 'you tube'. He was nine at the time! British Movietone put this on in July 2015. Google on 'Boy Violinist Wins Fame'.
Grisha's Father is with him and Isadore Nobel in 1932 on the SS 'Bremen', sailing from Cherbourg to New York. All three give their address as 416 Kearney Street, San Francisco. Mischa Elman boarded at Bremerhaven and his US address is 262 Central Park West, New York City.
These Ancestry.com passenger lists are wonderful for the background information that they provide, particularly when it concerns naturalised US citizens and those who have changed their original surnames. On this occasion Grisha Goluboff has become Garson Holcombe aged nine!
All this is not really part of Nancie's story but I included it to show the fun of research and of googling, in particular. I call it 'going off at a tangent'! It helps me hone my research skills.
Maybe there is a connection with Nancie's friend Vladim de Gouloubeff who appears in her address book but I have yet to find it.
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