Word: impresario
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...lush days of Caruso, World War I and the booming 20s, paunchy Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza built up a $1,100,000 surplus, but depression tore it down again. By 1933 the Metropolitan had to pass the hat for $300,000. Since then, the Metropolitan has been regularly running...
Behind its success lies the colorful shrewdness of Impresario Fortune Gallo. Unlike top-flight opera companies, Gallo's San Carlo keeps away from operas which are artistic monuments but financial hazards. For its 20,000-mile tour this season, 13 operas were enough. Seven of them (Aïda, Carmen, Faust, Trovatore, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme) are such longtime favorites that Gallo's troupe has given them more than 1,000 times apiece...
...while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist's reply that Rigoletto has no harp part, Gallo mumbled, "I'm not paying a harpist to walk the streets," ordered a harp part written in. Another time, Impresario Gallo avoided the expense of through Pullmans to Toronto by sending his troupe to Scranton, Pa. on excursion rates, thence by sleepers to Buffalo, thence by day coach. Saved...
Died. Morris Gest, 61, veteran impresario, spectacular theatrical producer; of a heart attack following pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most...
...late Joseph Pickett, a New Hope, Pa. country-fair concessionaire and shooting-gallery impresario, who specialized in toylike rural landscapes...