Word: marian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson in a program of Mozart, Gluck and spirituals...
...royalty check from RCA-Victor for six months' sales of his phonograph records. It was one of the biggest single royalty checks RCA-Victor has ever issued. It put him in a class with some of Victor's all-time moneymakers: Caruso, Alma Gluck and Marian Anderson. Added to his Hollywood salary of about $100,000 a picture, and an annual income of $200,000 from concerts, it established Pianist Iturbi in the financial big league in music...
Hurok obviously enjoys hobnobbing with his famous clients. Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool. He so admired his first big name artist, Feodor Chaliapin, that he followed him to Europe to get his business-and lost $100,000 on him. Once Chaliapin and Hurok, dressed in rags, spent a night in a Bowery flophouse. It was a gag on Chaliapin's part; Hurok saw to it that newspaper photographers found out about...
...minutes without squirming and your eyes and ears are still in his direction, then I personally believe that artist will be a success." In a Paris concert hall he once heard a little-known American Negro contralto, offered to sign her on the spot. Today Marian Anderson is his biggest moneymaker ($175,000 a year for herself, about $50,000 for Hurok...
Murray Levin--Marian Rubin (Brookline...