Word: impresario
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...falls in love with Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers), a tap dancer. Because of the unique means Petroff selects to meet his inamorata, a set of misunderstandings begins which brings into action an ocean liner, a pack of dogs, an airplane, a marriage for business reasons, an absent-minded impresario (Edward Everett Horton), an oily hotel manager (Eric Blore) and a scheming noblewoman (Ketti Gallian) before the two dancers arrive in each other's arms for good...
More remarkable than the fact that a music publisher and band impresario had thus set up an ideal outlet for his melodies and minstrels was the fact that Mr. Mills has cornered enough talent and is enough of a power in the popular music industry to make it worth American Record's while to deal with him as an independent producer. Last year Irving Mills turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists...
...Russians. Six are natives of Palestine which has several competent music schools but welcomes the new orchestra as its only permanent symphony. So many first-desk musicians are playing in it that critics expect the Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort...
Producer Sol Lesser, who made the picture, got his background as a childstar impresario by manufacturing pictures for Jackie Coogan, Jackie Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth...
Guthrie scraped together an 82-piece orchestra, and with a single rehearsal led it irreproachably through the opera, took a total of 40 bows by the final curtain. Well-pleased, Impresario Frank promised that Guthrie will lead an opera every month, the next to be Samson & Delilah. Determined Guthrie: "If I have anything to say about it, it will be sung in English. All American opera should be sung in English. What good are words if people can't understand them...