Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called on the city council to ban steam-bath temperatures of more than 100° until the authorities can complete a safety study. (Present conventional ranges: 130° to 160°.) This aroused a storm of indignation among the bathhouse operators. Cried Charles Postl, 72, oldtime Loop steam-bath impresario: "Why, you can't even work up a good sweat at 100°. This is ridiculous. The whole civilized world will laugh at Chicago...
Westward Eyes. After a summer of trouping. Balanchine managed to crack the big time. In Paris he got an audition with Impresario Sergei Diaghilev, also an emigre, who hired the troupe on the spot...
...surprise encore to a pop concert in Toronto, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz led the local symphony in the first playing of a spirited number, The Marine Boys March, written by an old acquaintance. On hand was the amateur composer: Mrs. Kathryn Godfrey, 76, sprightly mother of Radio-TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey. Said one Toronto critic: "An outstanding achievement...
...inaugural corrida had been advertised as the little republic's first high-style bullfight, and all 15,000 seats had been sold, some for as much as $12. So Impresario Toriello decided that the show must go on. The gate-crashers, with no fence to stop them, flocked into the plaza. Soon many choice ringside seats on the shady side had barefoot occupants. By fight time the plaza was packed and some 8,000 angry ticket-holders could not get in. Inside, the unticketed aficionados howled: "We want bulls...
...expert who shares Agnes de Mille's conviction that there is a sturdy potential audience for such a blend of dancing and humor is sage Sol Hurok. Impresario Hurok has put up the money to get the show on the road, has booked it into 107 cities in the next six months for what should be the most ambitious tour of its kind in entertainment history...