Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally considered final. The Prince, Heir Apparent to the "throne," wore flowing blue robes, the green and gold skull cap of the Senegalese sovereigns. He also carried a ram's horn suspended from his neck, ten World War decorations and a fountain pen across his chest. He hoped Impresario Grover Whalen would permit him to spread the word of the French West African Negro at the New York World's Fair. Mr. Whalen was not impressed. New York's Harlem...
...years a blustering impresario named Guy Golterman pushed and cranked at various makeshift means to get St. Louis grand opera going. Sometimes the singers he promised didn't show up; sometimes the operas he sold tickets for didn't get performed. His hopeful backers nearly always lost their operatic shirts. Two years ago they got tired and quit...
...Louis Blues (Paramount) is memorable chiefly for keeping George Raft off the screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches...
...three absolutely last-word fashionables-Musician Erik Satie, Poet Jean ("Birdcatcher") Cocteau and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev-spirited Picasso out of the dumps and off to Italy to paint decor for a ballet, Parade. It has never been publicly known that Picasso not only did the cubist decor for this extravaganza but rewrote Cocteau's book. In Rome he fell in love with a minor member of the Diaghilev ballet, Olga Koklova, and found himself faced with the unusual demand for a Russian-Orthodox Church marriage. In 1918 the marriage took place in Paris, and the Picassos moved into...
...high-brow music's biggest business is towering, barrel-chested Arthur Judson, president of Columbia Concerts Corp. He knows a sharp from a flat because he was once a violinist and small independent impresario. And he soon saw that it would be a bright idea to hook up concert music with radio's enormous publicity. In 1930 he merged with four of his competitors and sold Columbia Broadcasting System a half-interest in his new corporation. Today he is music's biggest wholesaler. In the music world he is quite generally regarded as the big bad wolf...