Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reinhardt (Wed. 9:30 p. m., CBS). The new Texaco hour, on which No. 1 exiled impresario presents his dramatic workshop on his first U. S.-sponsored program. Star: Cinemactress Bette Davis. Variety show performers: Cinemactress Una Merkel, Cinemactors Adolphe Menjou, Charles Ruggles, Soprano Jane Froman, Tenor Kenny Baker, David Broekman's orchestra...
...weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order to avoid the indignity of going to work as a ditchdigger...
...operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press gave them a big hand. In 1936 they enlarged their auditorium, planned a bigger season...
...Expect to Meet. Last week the person was 15-year-old Joseph Becker, who described how he ran his Bronx Baby Minding Service. One of the people who thus unexpectedly met Joseph Becker was New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss, who three days later summoned the young impresario, told him it is against the law to run an employment agency without a license. "I'll start another career," said Joseph Becker...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Fantasy, "Zion" Phillipson *Mazurka from "A Life for the Czar" Glinka *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *Overture to "The Impresario" Mozart *Prelude to Act III, "Die Meistersinger" Wagner *Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rachmaninoff Soloist; Jesus Maria Sanroma *"Briar Rose," Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Stors, Harvard Square...