Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guards Regimental Band, Violinist David Oistrakh and the Obernkirchen Children's Choir have one thing in common during their U.S. tours: in the program booklets or in ads appears a small, well-fed cherub who seems to be doodling with a long quill. This is the trademark of Angel Records, only two years old and one of the brightest, most enterprising record companies in the U.S. today...
...roster of artists is impressive. In many cases the Angel touch has helped to make stars out of performers once little more than names in the U.S., notably Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Conductor Herbert von Karajan with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels. Some record shoppers will buy the bright, cellophane-wrapped Angel albums for the label alone. Although Angel's sales are still well behind Victor and Columbia, the company now ranks fourth in classical LP sales (just behind London), and rival record executives have come to regard the muscle-flexing cherub nervously...
Married to a Giant. Like morning TV shows, Angel is run by a canny husband-and-wife team, but there is nothing sleepy-eyed about Dario and Doric Soria. Rome-born Dario Soria got into the record business more or less as a hobby while he was working as a radio director at CBS, and started to bring Italy's lively Cetra opera recordings to the U.S. as a sideline. The sideline grew into a busy firm (Cetra-Soria), which five years later Soria sold to Capitol in a deal that reportedly involved $1 million. In 1953 Britain...
From the beginning, the Angel line was enticingly baited. Examples...
...final sequence is the most frankly chauvinistic and the least convincing: hard-bitten Arieh Lavi captures a wounded Egyptian soldier whom he then discovers to be an ex-Nazi officer. Except for this flawed sequence, Britain's Director Thorold (Angel Street) Dickinson has imaginatively caught the almost tribal ferocity of a small...