Word: impresarios
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Between numbers the packed hall resounded to roars and whistles of approval and the stamping of teen-age feet. Afterward, it took the performers 45 minutes to fight their way through the ecstatic crowd outside. For U.S. Jazz Impresario Norman Granz, it was a comfortably reassuring beginning for his second annual invasion of Europe with his package show, "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In the next ten weeks, he and his musical tourists expect to put on much the same kind of program - and get the same kind of flat tering attention - in such cities as Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Zurich...
...Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome's impresario (David Brian) and Annette's manager, James Sullivan (Victor Mature), whom she married in real life and with whom the still trim, 64-year-old ex-bathing beauty lives today in Santa Monica, Calif...
Broadway has its Lunts; London its Oliviers. Last week Manhattan theatergoers had a chance to see the pride of Paris. Imported by Impresario Sol Hurok, Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault began a three-week run which will end with Hamlet, the play that brought their troupe fame...
...best-paid performer in Portugal. Her nightly fee, 10,000 to 30,000 escudos ($350 to $1,050), is so high that even the best-heeled impresario cannot afford to put her on the payroll, engages her only for one-night stands. Because she was a poor child she spends the money freely ("I don't know where it all goes"), but there is always enough to support her family...
...musical achievement. Most conductors specialize in symphonic music or opera, one or the other. Beecham specializes in both. What is more, he has probably forced through, against the odds, more performances of new or unknown works in both fields than any other two British conductors. He is, further, an impresario in the grand manner and tradition. He has given or raised vast sums of money for a multitude of large-scale musical undertakings. He has founded six separate orchestras. It is indeed hard not to agree with one responsible critic who says roundly that Beecham has done more for British...