Word: impresario
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...ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from the impresario of the troupe, Colonel Wassily de Basil, stood the beauteous prima ballerina assoluta of the Rome and Milan operas, Attilia Radice, and her journalist and balletomane husband, Paolo Fabbri...
...Massine had seen while taking part in the ballet, the Italians had conversed earnestly with Colonel de Basil, and as the dancer well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England...
Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find...
...famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling, had been its leading impresario ever since. For sportswriters who derided his favorite sport, Promoter Curley, famed for his good clothes, his huge red face and his amiability, had an unvarying answer: "I have never promoted a wrestling match that was not absolutely honest...
...Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton...