Word: impresario
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Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...
When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down. Then Impresario May asked Alpha a question...
...into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from the world because as a sheltered, brooding introvert he did his finest work. Without Diaghilev he deteriorated as a dancer and as a choreographer. As an impresario he was a pathetic failure. When Diaghilev died Haskell, like many another balletomaniac, despaired of the ballet's future. But the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe and the development of Choreographer Leonide Massine gave him fresh hope. The Monte Carlo Ballet, now on the verge of a five months...
...little steamer brought him into New York Harbor one July day in 1879, Richard D'Oyly Carte nervously paced the narrow deck with many a grave misgiving. H. M. S. Pinafore, of which he was impresario, was being widely pirated in the U. S. Without recourse to any international copyright law, he was determined to give Manhattan a production of H. M. S. Pinafore which would rout his unscrupulous competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan...
Cinema characters required by circumstances to lead backdoor lives have one thing in common: an only child. John Forrester's is a son named Jack who, when he grows up to be a young man (Robert Young) hopes to be a theatre impresario like his father. Old John Forrester, now a backstage worker in a puppet show, goes to the first night of his son's first play, sees it fail. Later in the evening, disguised in whiskers, he visits young Forrester in his office, encourages him to try again. After the gala premiere of Jack Forrester's second play...