Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hiphazard Impresario. Diana, Mary and Florence were all neighbors in Detroit's dreary Brewster Housing Project. "We were eatin'," recalls Mrs. Ross, "and that's pretty good. In the project you got along according to how many children you had. There was twelve in Florence's family, there was three in Mary's, and there was six in ours. So Mary was the best off, Florence the worst, and we were in the middle." Introduced to each other by a smalltime promoter, the girls were soon singing at neighborhood hops, block and basement parties...
Million in Tahoe. The Sammy Davis Show, set for Friday nights at 8:30 E.S.T., will finally provide a showcase wide enough to demonstrate all of the star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly...
...play along drown in the gravy. Among the kings of the circuit this year are Gunsmoke's Ken (Festus) Curtis and Milburn (Doc) Stone, who drew 225,000 fans in a week at Billings, Mont. (pop. 62,000) and, at the Kitsap County (Wash.) Fair-with the local impresario's job riding on the outcome-doubled the best previous gross. "We'll be singing and jawing at each other and having a time as big as my foot," announces Festus as they reach each town. Which means declining nary a radio interview and likely, after the show...
...Rubinstein was so impressed, in fact, that he asked Szeryng (pronounced Sharing) to make a record album with him, later induced Impresario Sol Hurok to book him for a 20-concert tour of the U.S. A modest man, Szeryng was hesitant to take the leap from the academic world to the concert stage, finally decided: "If this great master has this sort of confidence in me, why shouldn't I?" Since then, he has established himself as one of the world's top-ranking violinists, just as Rubinstein had said he would...
What do you do with ski resorts in midsummer? Most owners shut them up and join their friends at the seashore. But Alec Gushing, the imaginative impresario of Squaw Valley, hates to do things the conventional way. Three weeks ago he opened what he billed as "the world's highest nightclub"-at the top end of his wintertime ski lift...