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Once established, this comic mood splits the plot wide open. Billy Ross (Walter Catlett), nightclub impresario, gets a birthday greeting from Miss Dunne, orders her to report for rehearsals. Another switch, and in a wonderfully nonsensical scene he hires her to be his lyrical phone girl...
...mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky. In last week's wedding publicity she was headlined as a singer. She sang briefly in 1939 with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, has yet to make the Metropolitan, where Whitney is a board director. Lately she has sung in churches, occasionally...
...plates outright, there was no limit to the number of prints he could make from each plate. When the issues from ten of an artist's plates sold out, his fee was raised to $300; when he had doubled this output, it was raised to $400. Meanwhile Impresario Lewenthal scouted around, getting his artists extra jobs in magazine, illustration and display work. His strangest piece of extracurricular job finding came last year, when Cinema Producer Walter Wanger hired nine of Lewenthal's best artists to go to Hollywood and paint scenes from the picture-in-progress, The Long...
...Taking Painter Benton at his word, Manhattan Impresario Billy Rose last week asked for and succeeded in borrowing Benton's most saloon-worthy canvas, the famed, undraped Persephone, to hang in his revamped cabaret, the Diamond Horseshoe. Said Rose: "You've got the painting; I've got the saloon...
...Impresario of the Forum of the Air is wispy, 37-year-old Theodore Granik, who looks like a younger version of Léon Blum. A lawyer by profession, Granik used to be assistant director of Manhattan's WGBS (now WINS), where he did everything from conducting Biblical readings to reporting prize fights. One of the ideas he cooked up for WGBS was a program known as Law for the Layman. When the station was sold in 1928, he transferred his show to WOR, decided to transform it into a forum after listening to Congressman Celler of New York...