Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightly or wrongly they acquired the reputation of working their casts harder, paying their chorus girls less, driving the sharpest bargains on Broadway. In 1927 Lee & Jake owned, leased or operated 43 first class theatres in New York, 55 in other U. S. cities, six in London. Came the Depression and the revolt of the Broadway angels. The Shuberts sold their British theatres; most of the others remained dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always...
Prime novelty of last year's concert season was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England...
...Cossack chorus emphasizes its historic background by appearing in military tunics, breeches with a single scarlet stripe, and high, shiny riding boots. It has many another unique characteristic: Its members are all exiled from Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...
...Doucet et Cie. In the trade Silkman Golding is known as a "superior salesman." The new company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name of the Zig wearing that model. One store in each city will have a franchise for handling Golding dresses. The company will engage "leading American artists" to design its frocks, has not revealed their names...