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...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...
Impresario Hurok, whose eyes are seldom shut, has a more-than-esthetic interest in Miss Munsel. Eight years ago, listening at his radio one afternoon to the Met Auditions of the Air, he heard 17-year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a country brook, and lustily topping off high Fs. It was not the greatest voice he had ever heard, but coloraturas were scarce, particularly with Lily Pons, the Met's coloratura queen, making herself scarcer on wartime tours. Hurok went to see Patrice, and liked what he saw-a confident...
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...