Word: impresario
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Hannagan began press-agentry when Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming automobile racers came to Lafayette. McCarney, once a Broadway impresario, was taken ill and young "Steve," who had never before seen a racing car, publicized his show. On the strength of his success he ventured to Indianapolis, worked on the Star for a time and eventually attached himself to Promoter Fisher's Speedway. Result: the "boy press agent." as Promoter Fisher called him, set a new attendance record for the races which he has been exploiting ever since. Early in the game "Steve" Hannagan established a reputation...
Vincent Youmans was born, not many more than 30 years ago, within wailing distance of Broadway's Tin Pan Alley. His father made hats. A hat he made for oldtime Impresario Oscar Hammerstein now reposes in the cornerstone of the Manhattan Theatre, where Through the Years is playing...
...Metropolitan Opera is an old fogy with antiquated ways. It lives in a shabby, inconvenient old house. Its staging has shown no progress. The same scenery is used again and again. . . . Ottavia Scotto. South American impresario, said all this in effect when he arrived in Manhattan last week on the S. S. France. New York needs a larger opera house, he said, a modern one, with cheaper seats...
Criticisms and prescriptions on the order of Impresario Scotto's have simmered and boiled in Manhattan all season. Many have thought that Radio City offered the logical cure. A new Metropolitan would be built there in another two years, they prophesied. But the Metropolitan appears to be of a different mind. The property belongs to 35 conservative parterre-box-holders who are unwilling to sell out at Depression prices and unwilling, many of them, to let Metropolitan traditions be swallowed up in John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s new commercialized enterprise. Radio City officials, tired of the Met's indecision...
...producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis Eckstein now personally backs Ravinia. For more than 20 years Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza has run New York's opera and managed to enhance its prestige without incurring a deficit. He presents each season several new operas and the world's highest priced singers. He even built up a reserve fund which carried him through last year when seat sales started to fall...