Word: impresario
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Died. Lionel Powell, famed impresario who introduced Paderewski, Caruso. Chaliapin, Tetrazzini, Kreisler, Jeritza et al. to London, visited the U. S. 40 times during the course of his career; after an operation...
...thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last act of the play-when the opera singer has given an inspired rendition of Tosca, dismissed a boring fiance-she discovers that her gigolo is an American impresario, traveling incognito with his good-humored aunt (Alison Skipworth...
...Metropolitan's new board chairman, felt called upon last week to make his first significant speech from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...halt this by another. She obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean was a Miss Rose Douras Van Cleve, widely identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Marion Davies. Other Riga divorce-getters, di-vorce-seekers: Impresario Max Reinhardt, German Novelist Jakob Wassermann, Composer Eugen d'Albert. Princess Alice Muriel (daughter of the late John Jacob Astor) Obolensky...
...undertook to sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...