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...advice of his old friend and first employer, Bernard Baruch, Columnist-Showman Billy Rose turned down an offer of $25,000 a week to do a television show for RCA, became instead consulting director for the 1953 California World Progress Exposition. Salary: one pound of his favorite tobacco (Mixture...
...worlds that never were, and to return from them with his own devil-may-care impressions. To his admirers he is a restless, inventive, original genius. To his critics, including some of the other topnotchers in the school of Paris, he is a talented mountebank and irrepressible showman who has lured his followers and the world up a blind artistic and intellectual alley...
...First Jimmy tried to persuade a prominent public figure to accept Benedict's surrender, but got a turndown. A few weeks ago, Jimmy went to Columnist Winchell, made a deal with him to accept the surrender. While the details were being worked out, Winchell, always a shrewd showman, broadcast two more "appeals" to Benedict Macri to give up. Last week the columnist told the New York Mirror to get its story and Page One headlines ready. But twice Benedict Macri broke his date with Winchell. Apologized a go-between: "Please, Mr. Winchell, we got him in such a deep...
...when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
...Irish stew of vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance routines strike an efficient, lusterless com promise between vaudeville...