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What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
...such greats of the dance as Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova, Founder Ted Shawn. This year they got a close-up look at another of the foremost U.S. dancers and teachers. Charles Weidman's name was not so well known to the U.S. as some with less talent. Sol Hurok had never ballyhooed him-but the experts will let him dance in their all-America team any time...
Isaac had a manager willing to wait. He told Isaac: "Plug, play and practice; I'll talk about you." The first year he got seven concerts, the second 14. Then he was signed by Master Plugger Sol Hurok...
Last week Lady Beecham was scheduled to play a Mozart concerto with the Royal Philharmonic-but there was a hasty change of plans. She was ill. Impresario Harold Fielding, the Sol Hurok of England, urged Sir Thomas to get a substitute. Sir Thomas tartly refused...
Last week Sol Hurok, ballet's Barnum, who has done as much as anyone to make the art an industry, confessed in Variety: "Ballet, we must admit, is not an essential commodity. The public can live without...