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...annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca...
...means dull, companion in his "act," his twin brother Jimmy. Precocious Johnny and normal Jimmy put on their performance at Manhattan's Babies Hospital. Manager was Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, jolly assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Impresario was Professor Frederick Tilney, learned director of research at the Neurological Institute. Although Professor Tilney urgently needs money for essential researches at the Neurological Institute and Johnny's father, who is temporarily a taxidriver, and Johnny's mother, who was a telephone operator, urgently need money for family expenses, neither...
...gravest concern to Chief Impresario Rufus Dawes last week was the final profit and loss standing of his enterprise. Estimated total amount spent on the show was $32,529,000, but a considerable part of this was spent by exhibitors and concessionaires. When the Fair opened, its total liabilities were $13,202,000 of which $9,750,000 represented a bond issue subscribed by Chicagoans. Three days before closing, revenue from admissions was $8,913,000, from concessions $3,055,000. Expenses were $4,913,000. With adjustments for lesser items net operating profit was $7,454,000. Remaining liabilities...
...announcement of the final week of the Fair was that it would open again in 1934. As money came in during the summer Impresario Rufus Dawes paid off $4,000,000 of bonds. Last week he paid another million, felt he had done pretty well to pay stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair...
...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...