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Nellie is a showman who spreads fun with darting glances and impish inflections. Says she: "I've got to feel what I'm doing and I'm not happy until my audience feels it too. ... I can sense it, I can tell from their faces...
Raucous, rowdy Leland Stanford MacPhail, 57, had left a mark on baseball. He had been the most successful promoter and showman the game had ever known. A year after he took over as general manager of the wobbly Cincinnati Reds in 1933, he introduced night baseball to the majors, began luring droves of fans through the turnstiles with fireworks and hoopla. Moving east to Brooklyn, he masterminded the mortgaged Dodgers into their first pennant in 20 years, drew crowds of over a million four years...
...tennis public would like Kramer better if he were more of a showman. They like the melodramatics of a Tilden, the antics of a beret-bearing Borotra, the Cockney ping-pongery of a Perry. Kramer makes his "big game" look too easy...
...Waring profile is sagging slightly, but the Waring temperament is as sharp as ever. "I'm a perfectionist," explains Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...almost every other form of show business; he has been a successful playwright, stage & screen star, composer, director, producer, librettist, sometime song-&-dance man. Occasionally he has been a guest on U.S. radio shows. But the BBC normally pays only pittances to its performers, and Noel Coward, a commercial showman to his talented, tapered finger tips, works for no pittance...