Genius and Mischief - The Pianist and the Singer

The young Artur Rubinstein, who later became one of the most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and the young Feodor Chaliapin, perhaps the most renown singer to have ever come out of Mother Russia, encountered one another in, I believe, Moscow. As the two musicians walked down one of the streets, a woman and her teen-age daughter (probably around 17 or 18 years of age), strolled by the two in the opposite direction. According to Rubinstein, in his memoir, Chaliapin immediately wheeled around and pursued the two women, and disappeared around a corner.
Now; to interject- both Rubinstein (before he settled down in his late thirties) and Chaliapin were known as, shall we say, "active admirers of feminine beauty", especially Chaliapin, whose reputations both as artist and womanizer were well-known.
At a later date, Rubinstein and Chaliapin met, and Rubinstein asked, arguably, the greatest Basso in the history of singing, what the outcome of that encounter on the street turned out to be.
Chaliapin answered "the mother was wonderful, but the daughter was fantastic."
I cannot inform you as to whether this story is apocryphal, but it IS in Rubinstein's memoir.
At any rate, the amorous exploits of these two giants were without denial by both. As a matter of fact, Rubinstein unabashedly relates some of his escapades in his memoir.