Word: impresario
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...Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate...
Because Russian choruses generally draw big audiences, Manager Sol Hurok ran little risk when he imported the Moscow singers, sent them out to tour. But risks have never frightened that ebullient impresario who arrived in the U. S. 32 years ago, knowing no English and with less than $2 in his pocket. Young Sol Hurok peddled needles & pins, worked in a mattress factory, a bottle factory, a crockery store, heard music whenever he could. When a Brooklyn charity wanted to give a series of concerts Sol Hurok undertook to engage the artists. At 21 he rented huge Madison Square Garden...
...near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal as well as factual details. Brady...
...place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would be my impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because "you mix with the greatest artists in the world." By those artists Mme Savage came to be loved and respected, to be called "Maman" and "Mother." Farrar gave her a wig, Nellie Melba jewels, Sibyl Sanderson...
...businesses the most uncertain is show business. And of show businesses the most uncertain are fairs. And of fair businesses the most uncertain are world fairs which require huge investments, huge ballyhoo. Last week when A Century of Progress cast up its accounts, it was clear that Impresario Rufus Dawes* had done what has never been done before: he made a world's fair pay. From January 1928 to December 1934 A Century of Progress had taken in $29,321,876 from paid admissions, space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been...