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...million. This season the deficit is less, around $300,000. Gallo's San Carlo Company, a popular-priced road troupe which is now finishing its season with a grandiose series of operas in Havana, earns a net profit, much to the comfort and happiness of its very able impresario, Fortune Gallo. The Wagnerian Festival Company, which had a rather precarious career this season, achieved a handsome deficit. The Russian Opera Company, which arrives in New York after a long road tour, has been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study of operatic finances makes...
Gatti. This impresario is personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk...
...Fortune Gallo, owner of the company. He is an amazing fellow. He left Italy years ago, as he tells you, with nothing save a few dollars and his guitar. These he lost in a card game on the boat. In New York he began his career as an impresario by organizing political demonstrations on election day. He became a manager of brass bands, and finally secretary of the San Carlo Company. The troupe was doing poorly, and soon went stranded down in the Southwest Gallo bought out the owner for a small price, and immediately started the company toward success...
...enviable reputation for Stanford when it sang at the Pasadena Easter Sunrise Concert at the Hotel Huntington. In San Francisco music lovers showed their approval of the organization by giving it seven curtain calls at a special Sunday morning concert at the California Theatre. L. H. Behymer, Maestro-Impresario of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and probably the greatest musical manager of the Pacific Coast, recommends the Club as follows: "Stanford's Glee Club is the best of its class I have ever heard in my musical career...
...thoroughly Harvard product for Mr. Maynadier '89 is the impresario, L. A. Noble '13, the publisher and thirteen members of Mr. Maynadier's composition course, English 22, each contribute a story...