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001 2006006966
003 DLC
005 20070409122525.0
008 060301s2006 iluaf s001 0deng
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020 $a0252031644 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm64486697
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050 00 $aPN1583$b.N48 2006
082 00 $a791.0922$222
100 1 $aNewman, Danny.
245 10 $aTales of a theatrical guru /$cDanny Newman ; foreword by Studs Terkel.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$cc2006.
300 $axii, 260 p., [28] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aMusic in American life
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aMilton Berle, show-biz whiz, wins $20,000 and I win $8 betting on General Mowley in eighth race at empire! The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s -- Good night, Jimmy Durante (and Clayton and Jackson, too), wherever you are! -- Vaudeville headliners Laurel and Hardy return to their roots; also about Roy Rogers, Trigger, early-days movie Cowboy Buck Jones, and other show-biz exotica! -- Harry Bloomfield, free-spending ticket-scalper/theatrical producer; the young, idealistic Frank Sinatra; and Peru's Alberto Vargas, painter of the Ziegfeld girls, the Varga girls, and the Playboy girls -- Tales of Chicago's all-day, all-night Astor theatre and the peerless menu Poet Dario Toffenetti next door -- The Fantastic Sally Rand: the 1933 world's fair Lady Godiva and her trusty adding machine -- Dynamic Sam Wanamaker from Chicago's west side: a Broadway star, internationally famed director/producer, theatrical force in the west end, and restorer of London's old globe theatre -- Francis X. Bushman, king of silent movies worldwide, earned multi-millions before income tax! -- My romantic 1948 transatlantic call results in a fascinating forty-year, five-continent travelog with actress Dina Halpern -- Russia's tempestuous Madame Eugenie Leontovich: actress, director, playwright, producer, teacher, and great artist -- George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein's perfect partnership -- Geraldine Page, a brilliant young actress and casualty of the method -- Samuel Goldwyn (Shmuel Gelbfisz) walks from Warsaw to Hamburg, is a blacksmith in England, a world-champion glove salesman, and wealthy Hollywood producer in America -- Carol Channing parlays "diamonds are a girl's best friend" into a half-century career climaxes by Her hello, dolly! Mega-triumph! -- Danny Kaye, the all-time great who felt that he must, wherever he was, Wow everyone within range! -- They loved me in Scotland (but I didn't love the deathly damp and dreary underheated winters) -- Jan Kiepura, grand opera's high-D specialist, and his wife, the adorable operetta star Marta Eggerth, enchant sentimental audiences everywhere! -- Yul Brynner, macho celebrity, and Dolly Haas, "Wisp of a porcelain actress," star in touring Lute song: thirty-seven days of passionate press-agentry -- Richard Tucker, the great American-born tenor -- Truman, Stalin, and a daring ticket sales strategy for Porgy and Bess -- Audience agape as Don Jose leaves Carmen in onstage lurch; cheapskate impresario evades payment -- Ardis Kranik, the apple-cheeked, all-American girl and award-winning savior of lyric opera -- Boyish Bruno Bartoletti joins lyric opera conductors Dimitri Mitropoulos and Georg Solti in 1956 to become artistic director for four decades -- Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi: two Donnas, both prima! -- Giuseppe Di Stefano, dapper, dashing bon vivant and the tenor darling of opera lovers everywhere! -- Baritone Tito Gobbi, lyric opera's godfather who made the huge civic opera house shrink to intimate size -- Saving Roger Dettmer's life, or, hell hath no fury like a tenor panned! -- The great Jussi Bjorling of the seamless voice (and a bone-crushing arm-wrestler as well) -- Kiril Kondrashin gives Puccini lessons, and adventures with the Russians -- Placido Domingo: tenor, conductor, impresario, and dominant personality of the opera world -- Paradise lost composer Krzysztof Penderecki and Pope John Paul II -- The great Luciano Pacarotti, faithful lyric opera star, turns "serial canceler" and Ardis Krainik reacts -- Tempestuous, controversial Carol Fox, who against all odds founded lyric opera of Chicago.
650 0 $aEntertainers$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aSingers$vAnecdotes.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006966.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2006006966-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2006006966-d.html