Word: proser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black-haired Eddie Fisher got his chance at Grossinger's at 17, thanks to a recommendation to Manager Jennie Grossinger by Broadway Showman Monte Proser. As a Grossinger's staff member, Eddie sang every night for a whole summer, learned how to gauge the reactions of the hotel's Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor...
...Need Is One Good Break (by Arnold Manoff; produced by Monte Proser & Joseph Kipness) opened, read its notices, quickly and wisely closed. Then, a week later, it opened again...