He didn't actually sport a pair of slippers and a pipe, but Violinist Zino Francescatti acted very much at home. Instead of a fireplace, however, he had the audience in Carnegie Hall in front of him last week, and the Philadelphia Orchestra behind him. When he wasn't fiddling, he lolled comfortably near the podium, gestured familiarly to Conductor Eugene Ormandy, even stage-whispered to him during the concerto. "That was pretty good;" he would say to Ormandy, or "We got it that time."
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with...
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