Word: impresario
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...stage: an assembly of very aged and very competent variety stars of another day. Emma Francis, at 63, cartwheels fealty; and the composer of the St. Louis Blues plays that fine lament in the sole nonspecial arrangement. There are more, all delightful: unfortunately, there is also an impresario, who delivers a long and mandlin curtain lecture and is generally intolerable. Mr. Sevitsky plays Gilbert and Sullivan with spirit, there is a Popeye, but no Mickey Meuse...
...having performances Thursday or Friday, traditionally Orchestra dates. But there will be a Saturday matinee. Seats will range from 50? to $3; season tickets from $4.75 to $27.50. By last week $75,000 had been guaranteed and more seemed imminent. "Opera of the finest kind Chicago has known . . ." said Impresario Johnson. ''We are very happy...
...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...darken the stage yet more, give Jarboro dramatic support, Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi got Negro Baritone Jules Bledsoe to sing Amanasro in the second performance of Aïda, said he would later appear with Jarboro in L'Africaine as well...
Lacking a Toscanini to dominate its fitful orchestra, Bayreuth concentrated on Impresario Heinz Tietjen's elaborate scenic effects, jammed the stage with 700 people in the song-contest scene. Most distinguished performance was the Pogner of famed Basso Alexander Kipnis. Eva was sung by Metropolitan's Soprano Maria Müller...