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050 00 $aPN1583$b.N49 2006
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100 1 $aNewman, Danny.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77017944
245 10 $aTales of a theatrical guru /$cDanny Newman ; foreword by Studs Terkel.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axii, 260 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMusic in American life
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $tIntroduction to a whip-cracking american showman's memory montage - covering more than seventy years of backstage and onstage involvements! -- $g1.$tMilton Berle, show-biz whiz, wins $20,000 and I win $8 betting on General Mowley in the eighth race at empire! : the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s -- $g2.$tGood night, Jimmy Durante (and Clayton and Jackson, too), wherever you are! -- $g3.$tVaudeville headliners Laurel and Hardy return to their roots; also about Roy Rogers, trigger, early-days movie Cowboy Buck Jones, and other show-biz exotica! -- $g4.$tHarry 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 -- $g5.$tTales of Chicago's all-day, all-night astor theatre and the peerless menu poet Dario Toffenetti next door -- $g6.$tThe fantastic sally rand : the 1933 world's fair lady Godiva and her trusty adding machine -- $g7.$tDynamic 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 -- $g8.$tFrancis X. Bushman, king of silent movies worldwide, earned multi-millions before income tax! -- $g9.$tMy romantic 1948 transatlantic call results in a fascinating forty-year, five-continent travelog with actress Dina Halpern -- $g10.$tRussia's tempestuous Madame Eugenie Leontovich : actress, director, playwright, producer, teacher, and great artist -- $g11.$tGeorge Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein's perfect partnership -- $g12.$tGeraldine page, a brilliant young actress and casualty of the method -- $g13.$tSamuel Goldwyn (Shmuel Gelbfisz) walks from Warsaw to Hamburg, is a blacksmith in England, a World-Champion Glove Salesman, and wealthy Hollywood producer in America -- $g14.$tCarol channing parlays "diamonds are a girl's best friend" into a half-century career climaxed by her Hello, Dolly?! : mega-triumph! -- $g15.$tDanny Kaye, the all-time great who felt that he must, wherever he was, wow everyone within range! -- $g16.$tThey loved me in Scotland (but I didn't love the deathly damp and dreary underheated winters) -- $g17.$tJan Kiepura, grand opera's high-D specialist, and his wife, the adorable operetta star Marta Eggerth, enchant sentimental audiences everywhere! -- $g18.$tYul Brynner, macho celebrity, and Dolly Haas, "wisp of a porcelain actress," star in touring Lute Song : thirty-seven days of passionate press-agentry -- $g19.$tRichard Tucker, the great American-born tenor -- $g20.$tTruman, Stalin, and a daring ticket sales strategy for Porgy and Bess -- $g21.$tAudience agape as Don Jose leaves carmen in onstage lurch; cheapskate impresario evades payment -- $g22.$tArdis Kranik, the apple-cheeked, all-American girl and award-winning savior of lyric opera -- $g23.$tBoyish Bruno Bartoletti joins lyric opera conductors dimitri mitropoulos and Georg Solti in 1956 to become artistic director for four decades -- $g24.$tMaria Callas and Renata Tebaldi : two donnas, both prima! -- $g25.$tGiuseppe Di Stefano, Dapper, Dashing Bon Vivant and the tenor darling of opera lovers everywhere! -- $g26.$tBaritone Tito Gobbi, lyric opera's godfather who made the huge civic opera house shrink to intimate size -- $g27.$tSaving Roger Dettmer's life; or, hell hath no fury like a tenor panned! -- $g28.$tThe great Jussi Bjorling of the seamless voice (and a bone-crushing arm-wrestler as well) -- $g29.$tKiril Kondrashin gives puccini lessons, and adventures with the Russians -- $g30.$tPlaicido Domingo : tenor, conductor, impresario, and dominant personality of the opera world -- $g31.$tParadise lost composer Krzysztof Penderecki and Pope John Paul II -- $g32.$tThe great Luciano Pavarotti, faithful lyric opera star, turns "serial canceler" and Ardis Krainik reacts -- $g33.$tTempestuous, controversial Carol Fox, who against all odds founded lyric opera of Chicago.
520 1 $a"In Tales of a Theatrical Guru, legendary showman Danny Newman brings together thirty-three profiles of key arts people he's known during his amazing career, many of them connected with Lyric Opera of Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEntertainers$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aSingers$vAnecdotes.
830 0 $aMusic in American life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42017239
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006966.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN1583$i.N49 2006