Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal as well as factual details. Brady...
...place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would be my impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because "you mix with the greatest artists in the world." By those artists Mme Savage came to be loved and respected, to be called "Maman" and "Mother." Farrar gave her a wig, Nellie Melba jewels, Sibyl Sanderson...
...businesses the most uncertain is show business. And of show businesses the most uncertain are fairs. And of fair businesses the most uncertain are world fairs which require huge investments, huge ballyhoo. Last week when A Century of Progress cast up its accounts, it was clear that Impresario Rufus Dawes* had done what has never been done before: he made a world's fair pay. From January 1928 to December 1934 A Century of Progress had taken in $29,321,876 from paid admissions, space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been...
...takes a long, while to set the machine for this problem, but, once set, it whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency in airplane stabilizers, automatic temperature control, radio, television, "wirephotos," high-speed induction motors...
...made hats, waited on tables. In 1933 she marched on the Chicago World's Fair, won fame with her fan dance, her bubble dance in 1934. Currently she is earning $2,500 per week at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant. Last week she made her debut as an impresario, hired the Guild Theatre for the dancer Kohana...