Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributed little to radio science. Indeed, in 1927 he settled a whopping suit brought by Radio Corp. of America for patent infringement. What he did give the industry was mass production. And he also showed the industry how to use radio ballyhoo. Atwater Kent was the first great radio impresario, signing up 25 opera stars for a series of Sunday broadcasts...
...subsequent performances Impresario Wronski has drilled choruses, directed orchestras, helped build scenery, scoffed at scoffers until now he can command a substantial backing from the citizens of Detroit. Last week he was so excited that he almost swallowed his cigar backstage. After Detroit he took The Dybbuk to Chicago, scheduled it for five performances this week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
Arriving in Chicago, oldtime opera singer Mary Garden scoffed at reports that she was about to wed elderly Radio Impresario Edward Bowes, explained: "The Major is a dear, sweet lovable man. We are very good friends, but not lovers. Can't you understand friendship...
...bulbous and bearded impresario, Yale's famed Drama Professor Monty Woolley simultaneously makes his debut and a great success...
...Philadelphia's Little Italy some 20 years ago there was a small, shabby theatre where neighbors dropped in to see a bit of drama, a bit of clowning and got for good measure a dash of grand opera. The impresario was Ferruccio Giannini, a tenor who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made...