Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera House in the third week of the Middle Eastern crisis. Three thousand people, predominantly American Jews, had paid for their admission in advance to the tune of $475,000 worth of Israeli bonds to hear Baritone Robert Merrill, Concert Pianist Eugene List, Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott and Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden. The fund-raisers' target...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Sizeman and Son, with Eddie Cantor...
...Eddie Cantor: "Like Sophie Tucker, he sells yesterday . . . The good old days always seem better than they were...
REPUBLIC PICTURES will go to West Coast investment-banking firm if deal currently being discussed goes through. Republic President Herbert J. Yates has given Bankers Cantor, Fitzgerald & Co. a 60-day option to buy up to 800,000 shares of stock owned by him and his family for $8,700,000 to $10 million, thus give them 33%-40% of total shares outstanding and working control...
...gives credit for his eminence to 1) the late Tenor Paul Althouse for teaching him, 2) former Met Manager (and former tenor) Edward Johnson for bringing him into the Met, and 3) Rudolf Bing for elevating him in roles and income. "I was making $6,000 as a cantor when Mr. Johnson offered me $95 a week to join the Met," says Tucker. "When Mr. Bing came here, I was singing for $350 a week. When I went in to sign my contract, I asked for $750 a performance. He just looked at me, then offered me $650. Finally...