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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...
...Impresario Hurok, 64, should know. He has been in the business of promoting, projecting and presenting ballet, opera, drama, symphonic orchestras and concert artists all over the world for more than 40 years. This season, for example, he presented in the U.S. the Comédie-Française, the Sadlers Wells Ballet, the Santa Cecilia Choir of Rome, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily...
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...