Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians. Six are natives of Palestine which has several competent music schools but welcomes the new orchestra as its only permanent symphony. So many first-desk musicians are playing in it that critics expect the Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, onetime director of the Frankfort...
Producer Sol Lesser, who made the picture, got his background as a childstar impresario by manufacturing pictures for Jackie Coogan, Jackie Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth...
Five months ago Impresario Maurice Frank persuaded W. A. Conant, Beverly Hills real estate broker, and wealthy, retired Opera Singer Mme Emma Loeffler de Zaruba to help build a grand opera association in Los Angeles. At the in stance of Mme de Zaruba, a little doubt fully, Impresario Frank picked young James Guthrie to conduct. On the crucial night, most of the town's topnotch musicians were tied up with the Philharmonic...
Guthrie scraped together an 82-piece orchestra, and with a single rehearsal led it irreproachably through the opera, took a total of 40 bows by the final curtain. Well-pleased, Impresario Frank promised that Guthrie will lead an opera every month, the next to be Samson & Delilah. Determined Guthrie: "If I have anything to say about it, it will be sung in English. All American opera should be sung in English. What good are words if people can't understand them...
...Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed an opera association with 2,500 founder-members who were never called upon for more than $50 or $100 apiece...