Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles that this woman has ignored...
...full of golden promises; Europe was full of needy stars. In Milan, in Vienna and in Paris, they signed up; they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
Last week in Chicago the singers wished they were back in Europe. They were nearly broke, sometimes hungry and always bewildered. Chicago's Civic Opera House, the house that Insull built, was ready for their premiere and so were they (with Puccini's Turandot). But Impresario Scotto, who had spent $45,000 to bring them over, was broke too. His angel, a Manhattan manufacturer of lubricating equipment, would put up no more money. The opening was postponed because there weren't enough funds to pay the stagehands and musicians...
...week's run. Lawrence Tibbett, head of the American Guild of Musical Artists, said it was no go: Scotto would have to stick by his contract and post two weeks' salary before the 40-odd people in the U.S. chorus, all A.G.M.A. members, could participate. Sputtered Impresario Scotto: "It is to be ashamed . . . to spoil an opera season like this...
From the beginning, its impresario has been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring...