Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl in the Truman Capote-Harold...
...grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled a sense of joy in the audience. At a party after the opening night performance they decided to express their gratitude to Impresario Sol Hurok by serenading him as "Lolo," meaning Grandfather. They picked that particular form of address, one Filipina explained seriously, "because he has been so helpful to us; besides...
...Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 56, mending after lung cancer surgery (TIME, May 11), popped up in Oklahoma City to accept a bronze plaque from the conventioning Air Traffic Control Association. The award was given in salute to Godfrey's frequent airing of problems in the plane-filled skies...
...Guess Not." Soprano Callas sang quite another tune: the break had occurred during the cruise, all right, but the timing was "purely coincidental-it had been coming for a long time." Its real source, she hinted, was her dissatisfaction over her husband's activities as her private impresario. "I am my own boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead...