Pianist eddy duchin biography

    For more than a decade afterwards, Duchin and his orchestra performed at leading hotels and other venues across the country, including six years in the Persian Room of the Hotel Plaza in New York City, and at the Blackstone, Palmer House, and Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.

    They also played at President Franklin D.

Roosevelt's inaugural ball, in 1933.

    It was reported in 1940 that Duchin's fingers were insured for $150,000.

vital stats:

given name  Edwin Frank Duchin

birth   Apr.

1, 1909, Cambridge, MA

death   Feb. 9, 1951, New York City, leukemia

father   Frank Duchin, a pharmacist and owner of several drug stores in Boston

mother   Tillie Baron Duchin

sister   Mrs.

Benjamin Slate

education   graduate, Beverly High School, Beverly, MA; Ph.G. degree, Massachusetts

    College of Pharmacy, 1929

first wife   Marjorie Oelrichs, an heiress, b.June 23, 1908, m.June