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...only as Alfred Lunt, but as a thinly veiled Impresario S. Hurok, Munshin has chances to show his mettle, and Les Quat' Jeudis are agreeably different, or French enough to seem so. As the author of almost everything spoken or sung, Charles Gaynor is not uniformly sprightly. Indeed, Show Girl is full of ups and downs, but is never long enough down for dire trouble, and is often high enough up with its star to be one of the season's few real sources of laughter...
...Detroit, Boston and Chicago, and even in small towns; one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn. The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least 15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with...
...Atlantic crossing has been the most spectacular to date, if not the biggest critical success. Before the troupe of 84 artists touched shore, with its 24 tons of scenery and costumes, ticket buyers had paid $500,000 for the troupe's month-long Manhattan stay. And Impresario Sol Hurok expects to gross close to $2,000,000 from the 25-city tour of the U.S. and Canada that will follow...
Conditions for judging the Moscow players were not ideal: at the insistence of Impresario Sol Hurok, the Russians were offering a straight Tchaikovsky repertory during the first two weeks of their stay, with no other classics and no modern works. (Muttered Permanent Conductor Konstantin Ivanov, who wanted to play more Beethoven: "I suppose King Hurok knows best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many...
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...