Word: impresario
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...Dinner to drop references to John Lewis, announced that any mention of C. I. O. and its boss will be forbidden hereafter on Chicago stages. When Chicago newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited to see what would happen. Said Manager Sam Gerson, as host to The Man Who Came to Dinner: "An actor used to say, 'Well, I guess John Lewis...
...American Ballet got a chance in 1935, when it was made the official ballet company at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. The experiment did not work to suit anybody, and eventually Choreographer Balanchine huffed off to Hollywood. But Impresario Kirstein refused to give up. Picking the best members of the tottering American Ballet, he formed a little company of twelve dancers, got a bus for them to travel in, and in 1936 started them barnstorming as the Ballet Caravan...
...office boy named Martin Block used to tear a page off Owen D. Young's calendar every morning, turn on the office ozone machine, then listen to earfuls of advice (8:55 to 9) from the big boss himself. Nowadays Martin Block, the dapper $50,000-a-year impresario, prizes that advice highly. "I had better than a college education," he reflects. "I had five minutes a day, six days a week, two and a half years with Owen D. Young...
Married. William Samuel Rosenberg (Billy Rose), 40, smart little impresario; and Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 25, World's Fair Aquaqueen; at last, in Manhattan. Fortnight before, he was divorced by Fanny Borach (Fanny Brice...
...served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture resulted from a meeting in Hollywood last year between ailing, retired Impresario Edwards and oldtime Moviemaker Charles R. Rogers, who had just been fired as production head of Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went to Paramount to borrow Bing Crosby. Paramount would not lend Crosby, hired...