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...auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries seven years ago, Showman Billy Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...
...wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...doors stayed closed. Many an old-timer resented Schulberg's public airing of a private grievance; some speculated skeptically on how quickly he would have shut the door on such an appeal when he was on the inside. But at week's end, Showman Schulberg reported a nibble. Some eastern bankers, he said, had approached him with an idea of forming a whole new company. But "I can't give out any more details until it jells...
...automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...