Word: impresario
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...famed Maryinsky Theater, the tough and thorough proving ground for Imperial School pupils. In her second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, and from then on she was on her way. In 1924, she left the U.S.S.R. and joined Impresario Diaghilev in Paris. Her first husband was famed Choreographer Georges Balanchine (now married to Vera Zorina); her second an Italian engineer; her third and current one Dancer Kasimir Kokitch...
...differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...
...Mention Opera. Hammerstein was born 49 years ago into a great theatrical tribe. His father, William, produced vaudeville; his Uncle Arthur produced musicals; his cousin Elaine became a screen star in silent days. But it was his grandfather, bearded, cigar-mauling, top-hatted Oscar I, the most spectacular impresario of his time, who made the name Hammerstein a near-synonym for Broadway. Oscar I was said to have occupied more newspaper space during his heyday than any other American except Theodore Roosevelt. A reckless and rambunctious man, Oscar I made millions in vaudeville and operetta, lost them on grand opera...
Billy Rose, jigger-sized impresario of jumbo-sized shows which provide him with a jeroboam-sized bankroll, peeled off $29,500 for silver banqueting and tea services at a Manhattan auction...
...pint-sized, 45-year-old Billy Rose, The Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...