Word: impresario
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...time a dancer instead of a singer and a young man instead of a young woman. Barrymore also uses a slightly different make-up-a thin mustache, straggling goatee and a clamp on his left leg, to make him clubfooted. Unable to be a dancer himself, he becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook). The part (like Svengali) gives Barrymore magnificent opportunities for acting with his eyebrows. His ocular agitation reaches its peak...
...paternal, middle-aged fiance, the comely vocalist throws her cap over the windmill, seeking solace in the arms of an unknown admirer, who is at first disillusioned by the young lady's forwardness, but cannot help revealing his love and the fact that he is an American impresario with a contract for the singer...
...Toilet Soap, Actress Billie Burke, wife of Impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, testified: "I really am 39 years old!* And I don't see why any woman should look...
...husband, Nathan Wallack, busy at his radio-supply store. She packed a bag, scuttled for the first train. Eighty other women hoped to sing in that one performance of A'ida but Housewife WTallack won the contest with her strong, clear tones. Asked for an interview, Impresario Paul Sydow refused in her behalf. Said he: "I don't want her to go like Marion Talley. Besides, she has enough to do to learn her part in ten days." In this same favorite opera, Soprano Anna Turkel of Woonsocket, R. I. touched fame by a triumph in the Cairo...
...years ago, when he produced Rose Marie, Producer Hammerstein was on the crest. The show made him $3,000,000. Shortly thereafter he built a $2,300,000 theatre with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator...