Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine seething years ago, twice-married Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 42, confirmed that she would make another try at happiness for two-"as soon as it's legally possible." If an annulment decree from Roberto is granted, she will wed her off-camera companion of more recent days, Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt. Open-armed for his new daughter was Lars's papa, a retired army major: "Ingrid made a most charming impression upon my wife and me." But so, he added, did Lars's first bride: "That was a very charming lady...
...Impresario Menotti could also count some other audience successes: a curtain-raising production of Verdi's early, daringly experimental Macbeth, given a sharply profiled, showily romantic reading by Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...
Boston University Sol Hurok, impresario L.H.D...
Reliving the good old days on Line 23, Russian-born Impresario Sol Hurok, 70, returned to the scene of his first U.S. job (as a conductor on Philadelphia trolleys in 1906), picked up a whereas-laden scroll from the city council, honoring him for his contributions to Philadelphia culture, put on a visored cap and an owlish mood to collect a symbolic token or two. Hurok sheepishly admitted that he was fired from the job "because the dispatcher soon found out that I was letting passengers off at the wrong corners...
...hilarious as Sullivan is lugubrious, and as sparkling as Ed is post-effervescent, Canadian Comics Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster are everything that "The Great Stone Face" is not. Well aware of their talents, Impresario Sullivan has signed them up for at least 20 intermittent appearances over the next year...