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...Boiled Egg. A few blocks up Broadway, ballet fans and theatergoers were also getting a chance to see-and whistle at-what the French had to offer. Canny Showman Lee Shubert had brought over a show that Parisians and Londoners had been cheering for the last year: handsome, 25-year-old Roland Petit's lusty new Ballets de Paris...
...clock is crowded. Cherington's Government 155a, "Government Regulation of Industry," is a good course under an expert showman (Emerson D). Finley's breathless lectures in Humanities 2 are rated among the College's best (Fogg Large Room). Music 1, under Davison, convenes in Paine Hall. Failings in the lectures are compensated for by the frequent keyboard illustrations. Dream course for auditors, Allport meets Social Relations 1a in New Lecture Hall. One of the top elementary courses in the College. Also in Social Relations, Sorokin's lectures are an experience not to be missed. "Contemporary Sociological Theory...
...author-neighbor Stephen Winston (Days with Bernard Shaw). "They put on a joint act . . . there was no conversation . . . quite spontaneous and carried out in mime. Danny sat on the lawn looking whimsical and picking daisies. And G.B.S. strode up to him and slapped him merrily on the back . . ." Said Showman Kaye to Showman Shaw: "I can quite see, G.B.S., why you have a certain disrespect for actors-there are none as good as you. You should have been an actor yourself...
Beyond his showman's skills, Milton gets into all the offstage acts too. Though his contract gives him the right to assist in putting the show on, he runs the whole business. He has a master grasp of the TV medium still rare among lesser practitioners who are hamstrung by radio techniques. He calls the show's camera shots, directs the acts, plans the continuity, bosses the booking, writing, lighting and costumes, dictates the musical arrangements (and frequently hands them out to the musicians), approves the scenery (and sometimes helps shift it) and, in rehearsal, often leads...
...Everything they wear, every move they make, is vivid, dramatic, extravagant. Brunn generates more color than all the John Murray Anderson extravaganzas put together. Never for the a second does he stand still. Not does he ever simply catch anything; he grabs things out of the air. He is showman, and the circus is nothing if it is not a show...