Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another customer would chatter away in Italian, confide an impresario's worries over people of temperament?and Carlo can still have a seat at the Metropolitan whenever he wants one?compliments of Signer Gatti-Casazza...
Thirteen-year old Robbye Cook, Pensacola, Fla., songstress, secured an audition last week, the first for one so young, before Impresario Gatti-Casazza and Chairman-Director Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, in Manhattan. In the wings of the huge auditorium, empty save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...
Mozart. Where many another impresario has failed, Producer A. H. Woods has succeeded in luring the famed Guitrys (Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright, Yvonne Printemps, his actress-wife) to the U. S. They presented M. Guitry's Mozart, the same dresden-china play of virginal genius in which Irene Bordoni appeared earlier this season (TIME, Dec. 6). Though Yvonne Printemps' radiant personality breathes life into the titular role (which was created especially for her), the play still seems fragile to the point of brittleness. The Guitrys were cordially received but the handicap of dialogue in foreign language militates...
...With Flowers. Brock Pemberton, impresario, is experimenting with an aftertheatre theatre, apparently with success. For his first 11:30 p. m. show, he presents Pirandello's Man, Beast, and Virtue, at the Garrick Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights. The other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly...
Under the direction of Ernest Perrin, veteran impresario for the Cercle, a cast of experienced amateurs will interpret the subtleties of the popular French satire...