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Billy Rose, Broadway showman-columnist, who got a look at postwar Europe on a junket about a year ago, decided to import 25 war orphans and raise them on the 125 acres he added last year to his 57-acre farm in Mt. Kisco...
Readers of syndicated Columnist Billy Rose got some inside dope that confirmed an old suspicion. Showman Rose, noted as a judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when...
...questioning the worth of "Radditudes" as an idea. As a magazine it has made a promising start, and some of it is interesting reading, but it must be more than interesting and promising to become a successful and permanent institution. But follow it carefully. A clever showman and an able advertising manager could work wonders over night, and it may come off the presses thick with class any month...
...around Wapello, Iowa, hunting parties beat the brush for a lion and a black panther, supposed to have been turned loose by an itinerant showman at the height of last summer's meat shortage...
...column (Pitching Horseshoes) one day last week, Showman Billy Rose had "a bone to pick with our top radio comedians." Said Rose...