Word: impresario
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...dark, but slashing ticket prices up to 50% had brightened things considerably. Conductor Ormandy was not worried: the tour, and the Philadelphia's nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras to tour...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
...give a darn about money," says Impresario Farrell, grandson of Util-itycoon ($85 million) Anthony Nicholas Brady. "There's no sense making a lot of it. You just have to give it away in taxes." But promoters and crackpots who have set snares for some of Tony Farrell's ready cash have misjudged him: "I'm not a soft touch. These guys around here think I am, but I know what the heck I'm doing...
Bello had not been in a rage, he might not have demanded that the impresario get the finest bulls in Mexico for him and his brother Pepe to fight...
...number of things might have changed the course of the corrida at Cuenca on Saint Barbara's Day. For example, if Eladio Gomez, tight-fisted impresario of the little Mexican bull ring, had not taken a second tequila one morning he might never have signed up Luis Bello, the famous and expensive matador. If Matador...