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Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
...Calloway is more a matter of taste-a haberdashing showman who is bound to worry the discriminating by tearing the passions of jazz to tatters. Lena Horne sings with high lavender virtuosity, and audiences will divide on whether she is truly elegant or merely too refined. Katherine Dunham's pretentious ballet troupe is also likely to split the vote...
...murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...kitchen range exploded in the country home of Showman Billy Rose, blew Housekeeper Mary Post galley-west, blew her teeth...
Stocky, shrewd Xavier Cugat's secret lies not so much in the importing as in the processing of his hip-cajoling products. A master showman, on state occasions he waves a baton three times as long as Toscanini's. He dresses his men in lustrous Cuban silks and colored lights. His music, tinted to the romantic debutante's taste, features Latin violins rather than brasses. It contains just enough subtle tropical pounding and gourd rattling to give it pith, not enough to ruffle the polite suavity of an expensive hot spot. Four weeks ago Cugat added...