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Impresario Sol Hurok, who attended every performance of the festival, called Argenta & Co. "one of the finest orchestras in Europe," announced they should be brought to the U.S. "I am," he added, "going to try to give them a chance...
Naturally, the reason for it all is the life of an impresario, director and producer, Sol Hurok. A penniless Russian immigrant, he came to America in 1910, and in ten years became the greatest showman of the age. Albeit the story is the well worn, Horatio Alger type, sensitive acting, and the interludes of line music make it a completely new experience. Even the inevitable matrimonial difficulties are touching...
...happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance) are winning top notices. Impresario Sol Hurok, who is bringing her back to the U.S. next season, has his eye fixed on the Metropolitan for Mattiwilda...
Tonight We Sing (20th Century-Fox) is an opulent, star-spangled, two-hour film concert featuring the famed clients, past & present, of famed Impresario S. (for Sol) Hurok. The picture offers such flesh & blood talents as Tamara Toumanova, Isaac Stern, Roberta Peters, and the sound-track voice of Jan Peerce. It also fondly recalls such historic Hurok clients as Anna Pavlova. Eugéne Ysaÿe and Feodor Chaliapin...
...Runs. Handsome Lou Wolfson has been scoring ever since his days as a football star at Jacksonville High School and the University of Georgia. He quit school in his senior year (1932) to organize the Florida Pipe & Supply Co. with his father and older brother. His brothers, Sam, Sol, Cecil and Nathan, became his partners, and they rode the crest of the wave of the expanding chemical and pipeline industries...