Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from the world because as a sheltered, brooding introvert he did his finest work. Without Diaghilev he deteriorated as a dancer and as a choreographer. As an impresario he was a pathetic failure. When Diaghilev died Haskell, like many another balletomaniac, despaired of the ballet's future. But the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe and the development of Choreographer Leonide Massine gave him fresh hope. The Monte Carlo Ballet, now on the verge of a five months...
...little steamer brought him into New York Harbor one July day in 1879, Richard D'Oyly Carte nervously paced the narrow deck with many a grave misgiving. H. M. S. Pinafore, of which he was impresario, was being widely pirated in the U. S. Without recourse to any international copyright law, he was determined to give Manhattan a production of H. M. S. Pinafore which would rout his unscrupulous competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan...
Cinema characters required by circumstances to lead backdoor lives have one thing in common: an only child. John Forrester's is a son named Jack who, when he grows up to be a young man (Robert Young) hopes to be a theatre impresario like his father. Old John Forrester, now a backstage worker in a puppet show, goes to the first night of his son's first play, sees it fail. Later in the evening, disguised in whiskers, he visits young Forrester in his office, encourages him to try again. After the gala premiere of Jack Forrester's second play...
...regard the presence of the Rand woman on the stage as an act of public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse." Sally Rand's act was cancelled. In Chicago it was announced she would again appear at the World's Fair, this year without fans. Said Impresario Joseph Imbrugio: "It is quite artistic. In fact...
...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...