Word: impresario
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...husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn to the dining room for breakfast, which sometimes included champagne-and raspberries. The raspberries were especially favored by Impresario Montague Vert Chester, who cared little about what he ate, provided it was pink. Through the pleasant confusion moved Muriel, her eyes alight, her large mouth working fiercely as she denounced Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata or praised the writings of her friend, Gertrude Stein. To Muriel, said Mabel Dodge...
...yielding soil of the fortune made from the sales of Britain's best-known laxative that the extraordinary personality of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, impresario and wit, has flowered and flourished. Although his access to the proceeds of that fortune has been progressively limited, it has been an important factor in the development, not only of his truly remarkable musical gifts, but also of all the extravagance, exuberance and effervescence of a rich and sensitive but irrepressible and boisterous nature. He is utterly free from cant and convention, and his fortunate combination of natural and material endowments has enabled...
...slower, we digress more, there's more tittle-tattle." says Impresario Maurice Winnick. Winnick bought What's My Line? (along with Mutual's quiz show, Twenty Questions) and sold it to the BBC, although some Britons insist that What's My Line? is derived from a 1946 BBC show called What's in a Face...
...while it seemed as if Manhattan balletomanes might not get a look at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the junior of Britain's two Sadler's Wells companies. With the Metropolitan and City operas in full swing, Impresario Sol Hurok had to search high & low to find a theater. But last week, in a Broadway movie house, New Yorkers were making up their minds about the company that in the past six months has been a popular hit in the rest of the U.S. and Canada...
June's masquerade leads to standard complications-the risks of exposure, the consternation of her fiancé (Gig Young), the slow budding of love between the pianist and the impresario. But the pattern is neatly woven and filigreed with fun. Eager to truckle to his protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with...