Word: impresario
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Gone Where? It was all good-natured fun, which had been getting scarcer on Information Please since last November when American Tobacco Co. began its notorious statement that the green on Lucky Strike cigaret packages (now white) "has gone to war." Information Please's Impresario Dan Golenpaul thought this advertising teaser in poor taste, told Lucky Strike: "You're lousing up my program, and I won't stand for it." American's truculent President George Washington Hill would not stand being talked to that way. Golenpaul asked to be released from his contract...
...been so successful (November sales were 38% over 1941) that all the green packages were gone. Then Luckies produced a new slogan: "The Best Tunes of All Move to Carnegie Hall"-an advance plug for its new show ("all-time" popular melodies played by Mark Warnow's orchestra). Impresario Golenpaul asked a Manhattan court to make Lucky Strike cut this commercial plug while Information Please was still on Lucky Strike's time. The court seemed to be sympathetic, but denied Golenpaul's plea. Irritated listeners, the court said, would probably direct their resentment against the sponsor...
...second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
...Impresario Salmaggi gives his public its money's worth. His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...
...University of Chicago, was a chaplain at the Great Lakes Naval Station in the last war. Then for 14 years he headed St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. With the help of the late Metropolitan Life Insurance president Haley Fiske, and the late vaudeville impresario Edward Albee, Bell raised about a million dollars to revolutionize the St. Stephen's faculty and methods. But the depression spoiled his alans and Columbia University took over :he college, renamed it Bard...