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Since the war, Vienna's State Opera has been the touring company of Europe. The U.S. has heard and applauded some of its stars, e.g., Soprano Ljuba Welitch and Baritone Paul Schoeffler. Now the company would like to show the U.S. all of its wares. Veteran Importer Sol Hurok is negotiating, but it looks as if the U.S. might still have to wait a while. Neither Hurok nor the Austrians are yet prepared to ship over an orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) of 113, a chorus of 106, singing principals, sets and chief stage hands...
...company was still in doubt about its second U.S. reception, there were other, more substantial assurances. Impresario Sol Hurok's office predicted a steady sellout through the company's three-week stay at the Met. After Manhattan, Sadler's Wells will set out on a four-month, 31-stop continental tour which has already piled up the biggest advance sale (more than $1,000,000) in American dance history...
Twinkling Talents. The daughter of Irving Hall Chase, a Connecticut clock (Waterbury) and brass millionaire, determined Lucia Chase had talked down the skeptics who told her that a company without "Russe" in the title was impossible. For five years, while Russian Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest...
...line Socialist has worked harder at his job of telling the truth about Communism than a Russian refugee journalist named Samuel Moise-witch Levitas. For the past 20 years, with a little band of writers, "Sol" Levitas has carried on his indefatigable campaign in the New Leader, a weekly newspaper he publishes in a crowded Manhattan office at 7 East 15th Street...
...Truth. Sol Levitas, who has been executive editor of the New Leader since 1930, is a slight, mustached man with a melancholy air and beseeching eyes, enough patience to sit for hours over a chessboard or fishing line, and enough ready wit to cajole or browbeat articles out of reluctant writers. Whenever they are so bold as to bring up the subject of money, Levitas tartly replies: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." To help pay for printing what he considers the truth, Levitas periodically wangles sizable cash contributions from sympathetic conservatives and such labor leaders...