Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
...high-class music. But few of them ever have a chance to tell a diva from a bettelhooper.* Ordering music a la carte, as music lovers in big cities do, takes expert picking & choosing. Because they want to be sure of the quality of their imported music, small-town U. S. music lovers have long bought it in packaged lots from large, nationally organized concert chains...
Today, 80% of U. S. small-town concert music is controlled by two large Manhattan organizations: Columbia Concerts Corp. and NBC Artists Service. The small-town business done by these two organizations (which do not compete, but divide the field between them) totals about $1,000,000 a year...
Like its only big competitor, NBC Artists Service, Judson's Columbia Concerts Corp. has a stooge set-up which tends to small-town business. This stooge is known as Community Concerts. Columbia Concerts Corp. sells some of its wares to radio chains and sponsors, symphony orchestras and local independent managers, but its biggest single customer is Community Concerts. Conveniently, Community now functions as an "inactive corporation," is regarded merely as a division of Columbia Concerts Corp., has the same board of directors as Columbia and the same president-Arthur Judson. When President Judson of Community engages the services...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...