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...opening of its orchestra season, Philadelphia had its own, its very own Leopold Stokowski. Slender and elegant as ever, he was bursting with energy. He had spent a quiet summer studying Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...
...allied with a hopeless cause," said the Baltimore Sun. "No one could have tried harder," concluded the Chicago Tribune which hated him. In Los Angeles, the Times gave full credit for "good intentions." The Kansas City Star lamented his departure on the grounds that, while he was "a great showman," he was also a valuable conservative influence in the Administration...
...instructor and little of themselves. It is not, apparently, so much a question "What can I learn?", as "How can I be kept awake?" It seems to be implied that the college teacher should be a sort of pastry-cook providing well-seasoned morsels for jaded palates, or a showman furnishing entertainment to relaxed and well-fed auditors. One would like, furthermore, to know just who it was that found this or that course uninteresting. The critic is not only anonymous, but we have Dean Leighton's word for it that he is usually not more than...
...Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel: The entertainment business needs good taste and a finer personnel. The showman doesn't know and the public doesn't know what the public wants. My idea is to be creative and present new things...
...Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers fairly itch." A classic with catholic tastes, Carl Laemmle Jr. Universal's birdlike little production chief last week also promised his patrons Show Boat, a series of shorts showing Moor Mullins and a new picture by Damon Runyan called Princess O'Hara...