Word: impresario
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Thirteen-year old Robbye Cook, Pensacola, Fla., songstress, secured an audition last week, the first for one so young, before Impresario Gatti-Casazza and Chairman-Director Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, in Manhattan. In the wings of the huge auditorium, empty save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...
...With Flowers. Brock Pemberton, impresario, is experimenting with an aftertheatre theatre, apparently with success. For his first 11:30 p. m. show, he presents Pirandello's Man, Beast, and Virtue, at the Garrick Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights. The other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly...
Under the direction of Ernest Perrin, veteran impresario for the Cercle, a cast of experienced amateurs will interpret the subtleties of the popular French satire...
...like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl. In fact, the entire cast creates effective illusion. If the West is not like that, it ought to be. Best and most remarkable of all is Impresario Belasco's staging. A little thing like the creation of the firmaments is, to him, child's play. Alexander Woollcott: "Then Mr. Mack apologized. . . . Why, even Mr. Belasco apologized...
Lawrence Conley, the new instructor, has been puglistic impresario for several New England professional champions and has acquired a national reputation as a referee. He is a former National amateur champion in the 135-pound class. In commenting upon the manly art to a CRIMSON reporter, he declared, "If a man wants to have self confidence at all times he should go out for either track or boxing. Then he can feel safe in the midst of the most trying conditions. I have known many runners who had more nerve than a heavyweight champion. Confidence is a great thing...