Word: cantor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, opened at the Belasco Theater the end of November, won mixed but generally favorable reviews. But the next day's box office gross was a leukemic $882. Commenting that "they killed us with respect," Producers Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor announced that All the Way would close after four performances...
...theater and moving insight, occasionally awkward but full of memorable moments, the play deserved a longer run. Ed Sullivan, on his Sunday night television show, told the faithful to go out and buy tickets-it was one of the best shows he and Sylvia had seen in ten years. Cantor, 40, a onetime Broadway pressagent, dropped the right word to the right columnist, reminded people that a ground swell saved Billy Budd...
...Century-Fox's former Board Chairman Joe Schenck, talked Mack Sennett into taking a $500,000 policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since has been able to touch the masterpiece Lloyd's once wrote to cover bosomy Evelyn West and her "treasure chest...
...most esteemed musical post in Germany, that of cantor to the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, is also the oldest: the first incumbent moved into the job in 1212. For 27 years (1723 to 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach himself directed the choir that has since become the chief custodian of his music. But in the last 3½ years, since scholarly Kurt Thomas took over as choirmaster, there have been persistent reports that the East German government has been trying to force the Thomaner to sing to a Communist tune. Last week Cantor Thomas fled to West Germany, taking...
...Riklis did have well-placed friends. One of them, Beverly Hills Investment Banker B. Gerald Cantor, a director of both American Colortype and Butler Brothers chain stores, tipped off Riklis that Butler Brothers was a good buy. Riklis bought enough Butler Brothers stock to place four men on the nine-man board. Then he sold off American Colortype's Chicago plant for $6,000,000, used the money to gain working control of Butler Brothers. The acquisition greatly boosted Rapid-American's sales. They soared from $18 million in 1957 to $225.688,405 last year, although earnings...