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...apprehended. At the 3,000-seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week. "When it's Blackpool on the line for talent," says one showman, "agents automatically tack...
Died. Constance Adams DeMille, 87, publicity-shunning wife of Hollywood's late great showman, Cecil B. DeMille; of pneumonia ; in Hollywood. An actress over the protests of her New Jersey judge father, she married DeMille in 1902, two years after they had met in the cast of the Charles Frohman melodrama, Hearts Are Trumps, trouped with him for several years before he entered producing and theater management. In 1913, when DeMille gave up the stage altogether for moviemaking, she told him, "Do what you think right and I will be with you" - she was for almost 57 years until...
...European tradition of Fritz Reiner or Bruno Walter, a pingpong postlude to a concerto would seem outrageous. Katims is a different breed of conductor who, like Lenny Bernstein, combines a showman's flair with an artist's discipline and knows that, despite the enormously increased U.S. appetite for culture, good programs must still be promoted. Says he: "No American conductor can expect simply to wrap himself in an opera cloak and make music...
...Showman. To raise money for his orchestra, Katims appears at fashion shows and candlelight musicales. at "Meet the Maestro'' luncheons and "Sympho-neve" dances. He has been known to turn his baton over in midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly...
Died. Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick, 70, longtime (1933-55) showman-president of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Yale football great and All America ('09-'10), Kilpatrick was on the AEF general staff in World War I, commander of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II, won a proxy fight for control of the languishing Garden...