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Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum...
...Manhattan theater, the endless tunes of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte ("Thus do all women"-or more freely translated, The Way of All Flesh) prattled along at prices of $1.10 to $3.30. Its young, energetic performers were a new opera company, named the New Opera Company. Their impresario was a handsome socialite, Helen Huntington Astor Hull, ex-wife of Vincent Astor, now wife of Real-Estate Broker Lytle Hull-one of those great & good women who support the Metropolitan Opera in the style to which it is accustomed...
Labyrinth opened the ninth U.S. season of Russian ballet. Chichi as ever was its first-night audience, implemented by the rich, well-furred, well-elbowed European refugees who are increasingly noticeable in Manhattan smart-spots. Beaming as ever was the impresario of the ballet, smart Showman S. (for Solomon) Hurok...
...high quality of the entries, the jury picked 300 for the lepers, and some 300 more. Chief Bruce bought water colors for two more Government hospitals (Fort Stanton, N.Mex., and Lexington, Ky.), organized a series of traveling exhibitions, gave the public a chance to buy the surplus. Soon Impresario Bruce had sold $10,500 worth to the Government, $3,000 worth to the Carnegie Corporation, $4,170 worth to the public...
...Impresario Bruce's watercolor campaign publicizes one of the arts most congenial to U.S. artists. Because his splashes of color on paper dry quickly and cannot be worked over, a water-colorist has to make his plans beforehand and embody them with lightning speed and absolute sureness of hand. Unlike oil painting where brush strokes may be laid on canvas, removed, changed with slow, well-planned deliberation, water-coloring is as fast and spontaneous as a tennis game...