Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Herb Sheldon, 51, impresario of radio and TV kiddie shows, who forswore the clownish costumes and childish twaddle of his colleagues, instead gave pre-teen audiences the scoop about building muscles (spinach helps), crossing streets and watching too much TV, becoming one of NBC's highest-paid stars at $250,000 a year in the 1950s; of a heart attack; in Manhasset...
When Big Top Impresario Matt Masters (John Wayne) takes his show to Spain, he has never told his ward (Claudia Cardinale) that her mother (Rita Hay worth) was the woman he once loved. No need to, really, because Rita has been missing for 14 years-guilt-ridden since the suicide of her aerialist husband after he discovered that her heart had been doing triple somersaults with the wrong man. Of course Rita reappears in Europe, and poignant revelations spring up faster than acrobatic midgets. Claudia ultimately overcomes her bitterness toward the older folk, which leaves her free to concentrate...
...Irish slang. And to scarper is what the young Brendan Behan must often have dreamed of doing in the six years he spent soberly behind bars, rather than convivially touring them. He put those dreams to good use in this merry and murderous mock-suspense story about a professional impresario of escapes at work in the underworld of Dublin, and Paris...
...real lesson was that both ailing orchestras are one-man bands. The Philharmonia is totally the creature of Impresario Walter Legge, just as the Royal Philharmonic was created by the late Sir Thomas Beecham "to maintain my reputation." Deprived of Sir Thomas' leadership, the Royal Philharmonic skidded so severely that many of its key players have jumped ship, and critics agree that it has long since jettisoned its artistic claim to the coveted Royal of its title...
Many of these programs were dreamed up by Don Benedict, a burly, energetic United Church of Christ minister who has been impresario of the society's operations since 1960. A graduate of Albion College in Michigan and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Benedict served two penitentiary terms during World War II for failing to register for the draft. Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders...