Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dais at the end of the long, red-draped, cream-colored restaurant sat the judges: Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Paris painter of nudes and titles; the slick-haired Belgian impresario, Jean-Jacques Fortis; and, peering recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian...
Londoners took heed; at week's end, the Odeon was sold out for a month in advance. Impresario Rank plans to release the picture in the U.S. late this summer...
...Impresario Bing had cannily saved his Sunday punch for the final week. It was the dramatic reunion of Bruno Walter and his old Vienna Philharmonic, parted since the Anschluss of 1938. One afternoon the 84 Viennese, in shabby lounge suits, trooped into Usher Hall for rehearsal. When Walter entered from the wings, they clapped happily and beat their bows on their instruments. Said the boss: "It is good that we meet again. It is high time, for I am getting a very old man [he was 71 last Monday]. . . . Now, gentlemen, we begin. Achtung!" It was like the old days...
Last week Lady Beecham was scheduled to play a Mozart concerto with the Royal Philharmonic-but there was a hasty change of plans. She was ill. Impresario Harold Fielding, the Sol Hurok of England, urged Sir Thomas to get a substitute. Sir Thomas tartly refused...
...other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some music." Impresario Fielding resigned in a huff...