Word: impresario
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...Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...
Directly beneath Curé Chaplin's left boot Artist Ravenne has noted the fact that his masterpiece was begun Feb. 26, 1929, finished June 8. Impresario Sid Grauman values...
...Impresario Heckler told a newshawk that Paddy at the time of his death held the all-time record of 52,850 consecutive performances. Said he: "Paddy never once threw me down. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention I will exhibit Paddy...
While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...
...popular-priced performance of Aida drew 10,000 people to the Chicago Stadium, home of hockey games, prize fights, the late Republican and Democratic Conventions. Manhattan's Maurice Frank staged the production (the first of 20), used the Civic Opera orchestra and chorus, one piece of scenery. Impresario Frank is not attempting to solicit the patronage of Ryersons, McCormicks, Swifts and their peers. In his excitable way, he likes to remind people that the high-priced, subsidized opera which socialites favored proved a failure...