Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest Atlantic crossing has been the most spectacular to date, if not the biggest critical success. Before the troupe of 84 artists touched shore, with its 24 tons of scenery and costumes, ticket buyers had paid $500,000 for the troupe's month-long Manhattan stay. And Impresario Sol Hurok expects to gross close to $2,000,000 from the 25-city tour of the U.S. and Canada that will follow...
...major attraction is vaudeville, and many people see three 2½hour performances a day. Blue-collar sorts in the main, Blackpool's visitors want unadorned, ramrod stuff, and Blackpudlian entrepreneurs see that they get it. "They like a good belly laugh," says the impresario of the 1,800-seat Queen's Theater, "and they don't mind it good and vulgar. If you don't like someone here, you don't give him subtle insults; you say: 'I'll slap thee in the bloody girt...
When William Zeckendorf, premier impresario of the real estate world, announced last year his plans to build the first hotel in Manhattan since 1931, the fanfare was deafening. The announcement itself was made from the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion. A prospectus was bound in red-and-gilt vellum, bore the simple, modest title: "The Greatest Hotel Ever Built." It was to be called, inevitably, The Zeckendorf; it would be 48 stories high, with 2,000 luxury rooms, ten banquet halls, 15 private dining rooms. It would cost $66 million and open in 1961. Ground was broken last summer...
When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he "bawled like a baby." Most of the backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting, with 12,000 college students finally tamed by the state police, National Guard and the U.S. Marines, the backers figured to lose $150,000 in advance ticket sales, not to mention the festival's glamorous name...
...Columnist-TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 57, who, having taped enough of his Sunday evening shows to last out the summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...