Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opera Company she sang the lead in Montemezzi's The Love of the Three Kings, and likes to recall that she literally brought down the house; during her final exit, part of the ceiling collapsed. All that remained was for her to be discovered by a big-time impresario. She was. Luben Vichey, Met basso lately turned concert manager, took her under his wing. "You will have a career, Beverly," he says sternly and prophetically. "No marriage for you. No children. Career...
...Give the public the best," says Impresario Sol Hurok, "and you can't miss. If it's promoted right, projected right, the public is here...
Thomas J. ("THINK!") Watson Sr., 81, founding father of International Business Machines, reminisced puckishly over lunch to granite-faced TV Impresario Ed Sullivan. Said Watson: "To startle people, I tell them I was born in Painted Post. Actually, I was born in the next village, Campbell, N.Y.-but Painted Post conjures up images of redskins war-dancing, so people regard me with greater respect." Then, taking his tongue out of his cheek, Industrialist Watson explained why he was only nibbling at his roast beef: "Breakfast is my big meal. My mother always told us you had to start...
...Manhattan, Singer Julius La Rosa, 26, who found fame with TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey and fortune ($500,000-odd a year) when Godfrey fired him, toasted his engagement to raven-haired Rosemary ("Rory") Meyer. Experienced in dealing with troubadours as Crooner Perry Como's secretary, Rory, 25, first popped into the public eye a little over a year ago, when she won a national contest as Cinemactress Ava Gardner's closest lookalike...
...music anyhow. For the Philharmonia is a chameleon-like instrument that almost too easily adapts to its conductor. It was formed of Britain's choice musicians primarily as a recording orchestra, which, unlike Toscanini's NBC Symphony, never had a permanent conductor. Its founder: Walter Legge, London impresario and record executive (Electrical & Musical Industries Ltd., which successfully launched Angel Records in the U.S.). In order to keep the orchestra intact, Legge not only booked concerts whenever possible, but accepted such esoteric assignments as film sound tracks and recording the works of Russian Composer Nicholas Medtner...