Word: impresario
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...bulbous and bearded impresario, Yale's famed Drama Professor Monty Woolley simultaneously makes his debut and a great success...
...Philadelphia's Little Italy some 20 years ago there was a small, shabby theatre where neighbors dropped in to see a bit of drama, a bit of clowning and got for good measure a dash of grand opera. The impresario was Ferruccio Giannini, a tenor who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made...
Seemingly unconcerned was Gaetano Merola, the dapper irrepressible Italian who against all odds founded the San Francisco company in 1922. Impresario Merola defined the deficit as an asset, symbol of the scenic equipment which he has been steadily acquiring. While San Franciscans worried over President Alexander's pronouncement, Merola was flitting about Manhattan last week, hearing new singers, considering new contracts...
...turned professional, tennis authorities were loudly indignant. They anticipated immediate trouble when other amateurs followed her example. Promoter Pyle went bankrupt, Suzanne Lenglen retired and professional tennis was in the doldrums when it was rescued by Miss Lenglen's onetime trainer, William O'Brien, now No. 1 impresario of the game. Since 1931, his tennis tours have grossed $750,000. Among the 14 onetime amateurs he has induced to play for him have been Francis T. Hunter, Vincent Richards, Henri Cochet, George Lott. Major attraction of the O'Brien troupe has always been Tilden...
...years Giulio Gatti-Casazza had guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished and its directors resorted to a tin-cup campaign...