Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...darken the stage yet more, give Jarboro dramatic support, Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi got Negro Baritone Jules Bledsoe to sing Amanasro in the second performance of Aïda, said he would later appear with Jarboro in L'Africaine as well...
Lacking a Toscanini to dominate its fitful orchestra, Bayreuth concentrated on Impresario Heinz Tietjen's elaborate scenic effects, jammed the stage with 700 people in the song-contest scene. Most distinguished performance was the Pogner of famed Basso Alexander Kipnis. Eva was sung by Metropolitan's Soprano Maria Müller...
...three blocks from the Metropolitan Opera House, where public donations were solicited this winter to assure another season, grand opera is being made to pay. The Metropolitan's best seats cost $7. Best seats for Hippodrome opera cost 99?. Metropolitan performances are put on by a long-experienced impresario who has listened to opera since his cradle days. Opera at the Hippo drome is the venture of two hard-headed theatre men who care nothing about music. But a few years ago when Cecil E. Mayberry was managing a movie house in Chicago he became interested in the money...
...Yale Daily News interview, Juliana Cutting, New York society arbiter and impresario whose omniscient lists determine bachelor eligibility to most debutante parties, predicted "smaller parties, moderate drinking and better times had by all." Her formula for a successful party: "A boy and a half to a girl, if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance, rather than three or four boys to a girl. The men would enjoy the dance more and would not have to 'drown their sorrows,' the girls would have more consistent dancing." Ended awesome Miss Cutting: "Tell the Yale young...