Word: claqueur
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...salesman, has been claquing evenings for ten years. Alabisio was a top La Scala tenor under Toscanini in the 1920s. Their basic claque (which they can beef up to 40 on important evenings) includes singing students, teachers, music lovers and two barbers. Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally at La Scala since he was ten years old. Carrara and Alabisio attend every La Scala dress rehearsal, talk to the leading singers to find out if they want applause at unexpected places, finally discuss the completed applause script with the conductor to make sure...
Joseph Wechsberg is a bland, dark, persistent man of 38 who started out in life to be a concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army...
...that they would no longer be wanted after Herbert Witherspoon takes command at the Metropolitan (TIME, March 18). The Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque happens to be standing behind him, he may be fairly deafened when the cued moment...
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