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Silverio, homely and nervous, is a gay showman. His capework is undistinguished and he is not adept in using the muleta with his left hand, but he works closer to the bull than any other matador in Mexico. He has been badly gored four times. Although he is not above pressing his body against the bull's side to pick up a bloodstain, when he does, the crowd has already seen the horn pass within inches of him. And for that the crowd adores...
This is painfully true when Ray Nance, an ordinary trumpet player, a poor violinist, and an unnecessarily heavy-handed showman, is out in front as soloist. It is definitely not required that a violinist assume an agonized, orgiastic expression in order to produce a simple passage; Nance was such a phony mugger that when he trotted out for his last violin solo the crowd laughed before he even began to play. Nance would never have been tolerated in the old Ellington band, and there would have been no room for such ordinary musicians as Skippy Williams and Jimmy Hamilton...
...though he hugs the limelight with a showman's depthless ego, in Hope himself is a hunger, or perhaps a final vanity, to reach people as a human being. For a performer who scarcely takes time out to live, perhaps it is the only way of being...
Married. Orson Welles, 28, showman; and Rita Hayworth, 24, cinemalulu; each for the second time; three months after Rita announced that she would marry Coast Guardsman Victor Mature after the war; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sleight-of-handed Welles, who at the ceremony could not get the ring out of its box, had featured his bride in his Hollywood magic show (TIME, Aug. 16). Said Mature: "Apparently the way to a girl's heart is to saw her in half...
...years ago Showman Gebhard set up his pitch in Cleveland's old Prentiss mansion on Euclid Avenue. Since then, abetted by a weekly radio program and sideshows in bank lobbies, schools, settlement houses, factory lunchrooms, the doctor has succeeded in making Clevelanders exceedingly health-conscious. Last week he made a splash in a bigger puddle: his Health Museum launched its first class for "interns" - 29 graduate students from North Carolina's School of Public Health, who will teach health the Gebhard way in the U.S., Peru, China...