Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week chunky little Sol Hurok, America's leading independent salesman of culture, published his memoirs (Impresario; Random House, $3). The press-agent (Ruth Goode) who ghosted the book makes Hurok out a kind of warmhearted mother superior to a gang of temperamental darlings. But the dollar sign keeps peeping through the mother superior's habit. Sol Hurok is an expert at devising ways to make culture...
This year the Kentucky Derby's portly, 84-year-old impresario, Colonel Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
Stokowski, pleading other engagements, had refused a March invitation to guest-conduct the Havana Philharmonic. But then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...