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...Geishas of far Japan to the Corrides de Toros of Spain is now playing at the Plymouth Theatre coming from a successful run in New York. Performed by marionettes operated by several Italian families, the divertissement is accompanied by an able group of singers. It is presented by S. Hurok under the auspices of the American Theatre Society...
...singing-actors. Some one asked him about artistic conditions in Russia and Chaliapin at once began a 15-minute soliloquy which no one could understand. He clasped his beautiful hands over his heart, nourished them wildly in the air. Newsmen sat spellbound until he finished, then asked Manager Sol Hurok to translate. Manager Hurok shrugged his shoulders: "Russia? Oh, it's just about the same...
...Blue Bird (S. Hurok, producer) is a medley of Russian vaudeville under the droll and genial mastership of Yascha Yushny. It is the sort of thing that moonfaced Nikita Balieff and Morris Gest first brought to the U. S. in 1922 as the Chauve-Souris and does not suffer greatly by this comparison. Mr. Yushny is much the same sort of master of ceremonies as Balieff. Witness the introduction he gives to a Boyar dance number, concluding with the sly information that he did the scenery for that act himself. When the curtain parts a plain velvet drop is revealed...
Adverse criticism, financial difficulties beset the German Grand Opera Company after its first performance. After one week it was necessary to dethrone Manager Blumental, place the company under the care of Concert Manager Sol Hurok, who said in part...
Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber...