Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway has its Lunts; London its Oliviers. Last week Manhattan theatergoers had a chance to see the pride of Paris. Imported by Impresario Sol Hurok, Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault began a three-week run which will end with Hamlet, the play that brought their troupe fame...
...while it seemed as if Manhattan balletomanes might not get a look at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the junior of Britain's two Sadler's Wells companies. With the Metropolitan and City operas in full swing, Impresario Sol Hurok had to search high & low to find a theater. But last week, in a Broadway movie house, New Yorkers were making up their minds about the company that in the past six months has been a popular hit in the rest of the U.S. and Canada...
...offered her $85 a week. In addition to that, Hurok guaranteed her $40,000 a year from concerts and radio for three years. Some of his fellow concert managers thought the shrewd old boy must be cracking up. But a year later, Patrice grossed-from radio, records and concerts...
Ready or Not. Manager Hurok's reaction to the bad news was to raise her fee from $2,000 a concert to $2,500. And in the fall, after a summer concert tour, Patrice was back at the Met. She sang Lucia, and Rosina in Barber of Seville. After their first broadside, the critics paid little attention to her. Thanks to public demand, which Manager Hurok did nothing to discourage, Patrice was kept gainfully busy...
...Young to Kiss (MGM) starts inauspiciously by presenting Van Johnson as the stereotype of a famed concert impresario who reigns, suave and multilingual, over plush offices swarming with international artistes. But this bobby-soxer's S. Hurok quickly becomes the butt of a pleasant little comedy by the scripting team (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett) of Father of the Bride...