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...bound book include a Brady biography (unfamiliar to most Americans) and over 400 superb Brady photographs, together with a number made by his assistants (at the height of his activities, he had 21). There are also some 200 Brady portrait photographs, some of them (notably Phineas T. Barnum, side-showman extraordinary-see cut-and Walt Whitman) never published before. Outstanding is the series of photographs of Lincoln taken by Brady in his studio...
Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...
Showmen Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, who was quite a showman himself in his earlier air-race days, braved the hazards of an Olsen & Johnson show in Chicago, did all right...
Earl Carroll, showman who went to jail in 1927 for perjury after denying that a naked girl had taken a bath in birthday-party champagne, celebrated his 52nd birthday at his Beverly Hills diggings. A thousand guests watched spotlights play on his swimming pool and on his "most beautiful girls in the world," waded into 40 cases of liquor (only five of champagne...
...Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...