Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most foreign artists now exclude Russia from their European tours. Their pay is mostly in rubles which they cannot take out of the country. The Government acts as impresario for all artists. A young Russian musician must pass examinations proving himself familiar with Russian politics, testifying that he has aided in some social movement like the abolition of illiteracy or alcoholism. The Government then advertises him in simple, forthright fashion. He may not call himself ''World's Greatest Tenor" as does Beniamino Gigli or "Famous Boy Violin Genius'' as does Yehudi Menuhin. Tickets for his concert will cost anywhere from...
Sebastian's propheteering publicity leads to an engagement with international Impresario Bimeter. All goes well until the clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes...
...week. Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos. They also got, between numbers, a good view of what the concert's impresario, Henry Ford, had cannily got them there to see-his new "midget" automobile to compete with the little Austin and Morris...
Hannagan began press-agentry when Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming automobile racers came to Lafayette. McCarney, once a Broadway impresario, was taken ill and young "Steve," who had never before seen a racing car, publicized his show. On the strength of his success he ventured to Indianapolis, worked on the Star for a time and eventually attached himself to Promoter Fisher's Speedway. Result: the "boy press agent." as Promoter Fisher called him, set a new attendance record for the races which he has been exploiting ever since. Early in the game "Steve" Hannagan established a reputation...
Vincent Youmans was born, not many more than 30 years ago, within wailing distance of Broadway's Tin Pan Alley. His father made hats. A hat he made for oldtime Impresario Oscar Hammerstein now reposes in the cornerstone of the Manhattan Theatre, where Through the Years is playing...