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This year the Kentucky Derby's portly, 84-year-old impresario, Colonel Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
Stokowski, pleading other engagements, had refused a March invitation to guest-conduct the Havana Philharmonic. But then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...
...After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...