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...hours on the ways. Only event of the week to compare with the performance was Pacific Bridge Co.'s launching of a much smaller 4,000-ton ship in three and a third days, but only 70% complete. Both builders had indeed performed miracles. But neither Showman Kaiser nor Pacific Bridge would tell how many man-hours went into prefabrication...
Songwriter, actor, dancer, vaudevillian. playwright, Cohan was never equaled-even by Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
...years Stock, the son of a German army bandmaster, had conducted the Chicago Symphony in the Midwest's finest music. Methodical, unassuming, affable, he had brought to the Chicago Symphony no such spectacular ups & downs as those which have dramatized other 'orchestras. No showman, "Papa" Stock stuck strictly to music...
...Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York...
...turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...