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Jefferson Davis Dickson, 36, was left in Paris by the American Expeditionary Force, so he began promoting prizefights in a small way. He discovered Primo Camera, became a millionaire (in francs), is now impresario of the big Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge...
...Metropolitan has also cut down on the length of the coming season-from 24 weeks to 16 weeks. A 25%, decrease in salaries is expected to result from Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's appeal to the company. With these changes the Metropolitan hopes to go on for a time giving opera in the old house. But last week Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath strongly indicated that the company would eventually move to Rockefeller Center...
Most foreign artists now exclude Russia from their European tours. Their pay is mostly in rubles which they cannot take out of the country. The Government acts as impresario for all artists. A young Russian musician must pass examinations proving himself familiar with Russian politics, testifying that he has aided in some social movement like the abolition of illiteracy or alcoholism. The Government then advertises him in simple, forthright fashion. He may not call himself ''World's Greatest Tenor" as does Beniamino Gigli or "Famous Boy Violin Genius'' as does Yehudi Menuhin. Tickets for his concert will cost anywhere from...
Sebastian's propheteering publicity leads to an engagement with international Impresario Bimeter. All goes well until the clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes...
...week. Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos. They also got, between numbers, a good view of what the concert's impresario, Henry Ford, had cannily got them there to see-his new "midget" automobile to compete with the little Austin and Morris...