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...company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been its former host but in a new theatre with GALLO blazed across the front. Critics attending the opening...
When President Coolidge "chose," he startled his secretary and his doorman. He startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
Lest President Coolidge's statement be made to seem a pet of political temperament, Impresario Butler closed his lips tight, pocketed his incompleted jottings, left the Northwest. But before going to Canada for a vacation, he did say that Calvin Coolidge was not to be thought of as definitely unavailable for the Prosperities of 1928. During Mr. Butler's vacation, President Coolidge repeatedly if silently insisted on his unavailability, finishing up last week with the almost crabbed words: "It is final." Mr. Butler, heading for Washington last week, obviously had a lot of new plans to make...
Died. John Curtis, 59, impresario, author, founder of the Philadelphia Operatic Society, an early producer of opera in English in the U. S.; of bronchitis; at Narbeth...
Gatti-Casazza sounded more like a college yell than an impresario, had the Metropolitan visited the Capital...