Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creator of the chisel-toed footwear is Christian Dior's imperious impresario of shoe design. Roger Vivier, 50, the man who brought the pointed-toe shoe to the U.S. and whom many merchandisers consider the top shoe designer. Vivier shrugs off the complete style change between the two shoes. "After all," he says, "in geometric forms there is only the round, the pointed and the square." Inspiration for the new style came from a pair of 100-year-old blunt-toed shoes. "I hate reminiscence," says Vivier. "I did not imitate; I was inspired...
Died. George de Cuevas, 75, Chilean-born, part-Danish, Spanish-titled Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter in 1927, became international society's favorite ballet impresario and one of its freest-spending party givers, renounced his title, but not his way of life, when he became a U.S. citizen in 1940; of cancer; at his villa, Les Délices, in Cannes...
...work is The Clever Flirt (La Finta Semplice), K. 51. Mozart's first opera buffa and his first full-length opera. The impresario is Baird Hasting '39, who has made the English translation and will conduct the Mozart Festival Orchestra...
...only as Alfred Lunt, but as a thinly veiled Impresario S. Hurok, Munshin has chances to show his mettle, and Les Quat' Jeudis are agreeably different, or French enough to seem so. As the author of almost everything spoken or sung, Charles Gaynor is not uniformly sprightly. Indeed, Show Girl is full of ups and downs, but is never long enough down for dire trouble, and is often high enough up with its star to be one of the season's few real sources of laughter...
Died. Mack Sennett (real name: Michael Sinnott), 76, impresario of frantic antics on the silent screen; of a heart attack; in Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, near Hollywood. Canadian-born Sennett started moviemaking under famed D. W. Griffith in 1910, quickly became Sultan of Slapstick, directing Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bathing Beauties Gloria Swanson and Carole Lombard, Keystone Cops Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle...