Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Hertz gave Impresario Gaetano Merola good cause last week to worry over his budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
...were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly closed each such session with the Press. Last week musical reporters were still awaiting their annual summons when Giulio Gatti-Casazza suddenly announced that this season would be his last as impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...
When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down. Then Impresario May asked Alpha a question...