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Died. Valentine Charles Parnell, 78, "Britain's No. 1 Showman" and longtime impresario of the London Palladium; in London. The son of a vaudeville ventriloquist, Parnell rose from office boy in a theatrical booking agency to become director of 400 theaters and music halls. To the Palladium he brought modern microphones and high-priced U.S. stars, both new to music-hall audiences, and soon turned the old moviehouse into one of the world's eminent stages...
Utah, from Corvallis, Ore., to Washington, D.C. Prior to its visit to the U.S., the Royal Philharmonic will have presented four gala TIME-LIFE concerts at Festival Hall in London. Rudolf Kempe is the conductor, assisted by Lawrence Foster. The tour is under the management of Impresario Kazuko Hillyer...
...Bach sonatas with harpsichord accompaniment. Some Mozart and some more Bach, this time grumbled out on a pipe organ. Such a program has always had its place in concert life, if only as a vaguely ennobling form of musical anesthesia. But if anyone had suggested it to an impresario, he would have been shown, with gentle pity, to the street...
...film The Producers, he played a zany impresario dedicated to staging a Broadway musical called Springtime for Hitler, a rococo recounting of the good old days in the Thousand Year Reich. Against all expectations, Mostel's musical was a smash -which turns out to have been prophetic. In the entertainment world nowadays, Hitler's springtime does indeed seem to have arrived...
Then Downey met Manhattan-based Cyma Rubin, the wife of the former owner of Faberge and the fledgling impresario who produced Broadway's No, No, Nanette. She staked him close to $1,000,000 and let him have his head on Greaser's Palace. When the film opened in Manhattan, it was generally lambasted. A couple of critics even suggested that Downey had been borne away by his budget, that his movies were better when their director was a waiter...