Word: impresario
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...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...
What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...
...dais at the end of the long, red-draped, cream-colored restaurant sat the judges: Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Paris painter of nudes and titles; the slick-haired Belgian impresario, Jean-Jacques Fortis; and, peering recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian...
...days later Miss France cinched the title when she met and defeated the belated Miss Italy and an ersatz Miss Austria whipped up at the last minute from a Paris fashion house. Miss Italy walked off with a consolation prize: a gallant proposal of marriage from her indignant impresario. She accepted...