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...expert who shares Agnes de Mille's conviction that there is a sturdy potential audience for such a blend of dancing and humor is sage Sol Hurok. Impresario Hurok has put up the money to get the show on the road, has booked it into 107 cities in the next six months for what should be the most ambitious tour of its kind in entertainment history...
...jitterbug, but when she tried it one night in a Budapest café, she was warned it might get her into trouble as too Western. Another long-frustrated ambition of Nora's: to see a Fred Astaire film. Just ahead should be plenty of chances. Manhattan Impresario Sol Hurok dropped in one day, watched Nora and Istvan perform on an empty stage, and signed them up on the spot for an early U.S. tour...
Impresario Sol Hurok, who attended every performance of the festival, called Argenta & Co. "one of the finest orchestras in Europe," announced they should be brought to the U.S. "I am," he added, "going to try to give them a chance...
Naturally, the reason for it all is the life of an impresario, director and producer, Sol Hurok. A penniless Russian immigrant, he came to America in 1910, and in ten years became the greatest showman of the age. Albeit the story is the well worn, Horatio Alger type, sensitive acting, and the interludes of line music make it a completely new experience. Even the inevitable matrimonial difficulties are touching...
...Mctropolitan Opera plays Elsa Valdine and sings the duet from Madame Butterfly with the voice of Jan Peerce, superimposed on Byron Palmer. Her rendition of Sempre Liber from Verdi's La Traviata is as sensitive as it is perfect. Violinist Isaac Stern is Eugene Ysaye, who gave Hurok his first big break...