Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime ballet dancer, dreams up most of the shows (300 in the Music Hall's 16 years), with Producers Russell Markert and Florence Rogge taking turns at others. They must keep their dreams expansive enough for the stage's electrical and mechanical powers, plus the talents of guest headliners and a "stock company": the famed precision-kicking Rockettes, the Glee Club, Alexander Smallens' symphony orchestra, and the only resident ballet troupe...
...thing, the new $500,000 stage was not finished. Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots. The new amplification system had eliminated the echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about in the past-but it had replaced them with some equally awesome squeaks and yowls. When the program ended, the crowd gave the musicians (mostly New York Philharmonic-Symphony men) a big hand, listened politely and impatiently while Concert Co-Chairmen Mayor William O'Dwyer and Sam Lewisohn said...
...even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by rigorous dieting, slimmed down to a more curvaceous 129. But last week, as the first guest soloist on the NBC Symphony's new U.S. Steel-sponsored Summer Concert series, the little Negro soprano proved that great singing does not necessarily come by the pound...
...rehearsal, she puzzled Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner with her embellishments in the spiritual she was going to sing; she could not mark the places in the score for him so he could be sure to keep the NBC Symphony in step: "I'm sorry, I just have to do it as the spirit moves me." In the broadcast last week, the spirit was moving little Soprano Maynor-but with a faultless taste and timing that kept Conductor Reiner and her listeners moving right with...
...hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired it by saying: "What Nicaragua needs most is a good third baseman...