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...Representative Sol Bloom, 76, son of poor Polish immigrants, former showman, lyrics writer, theater owner, real-estate operator, who entered Tammany politics after he had successfully retired at 50. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, when he was 23, he was the concessionaire who introduced the "Dance of All Nations" and the "Hootchy-Kootchy." ¶Charles Aubrey Eaton, 78, a Baptist minister from Nova Scotia who combined preaching and journalism for 25 years before he became a Republican Representative from New Jersey in 1925. ¶John Foster Dulles, 58, stoop-shouldered senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell...
...real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
...pleasant evening, and those who go Saturday night will find Showman White mesmerizing them into thinking they're in a small New York night club. Unless, as happened Tuesday, someone asks for the graphically lascivious "Jolly, Jolly," and Josh ticks Boston off by shaking his head, and saying pityingly, "Not here...
Similar raises have been gotten by directors and producers, who probably fired and forgot the wartime underling who cracked: "A good showman today is a man who opens his theater doors and has sense enough to get the hell out of the way before he gets trampled to death by the incoming audience...
...forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge...