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Labyrinth opened the ninth U.S. season of Russian ballet. Chichi as ever was its first-night audience, implemented by the rich, well-furred, well-elbowed European refugees who are increasingly noticeable in Manhattan smart-spots. Beaming as ever was the impresario of the ballet, smart Showman S. (for Solomon) Hurok...
Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
Because his theater operates for 40% less than an average movie house of the same capacity, lanky Nate Barger, veteran Chicago showman and owner of a burlesque house, figures to turn a neat profit on his new $165,000 venture if the weather man and the customers are kind to him. He can give two shows nightly. Full capacity (better than three admissions to a car) should gross him $15,000 to $20,000 a week...
...Chicago, shortly after Showman Mike (Streets of Paris') Todd quit the world's biggest theater-restaurant, seating 3,700 (TIME, Jan. 6), it was closed by the Chicago police. Reported reason: it had fallen into the hands of Chicago's Nitti gang, who were converting it from a family-style resort into a vast honkytonk...
...Manhattan last week, Showman Monte ("Only Two Zombies to a Customer") Proser's world's biggest dance hall (in Madison Square Garden), accommodating 5,000 dancers, 4,000 spectators, folded. It never got its hoped-for weekly attendance of about 30,000, finally ran into a scorching weekend, and one night only 1,500 customers appeared. Among the backers who shared the rumored $85,000 loss: Terminal Taxicab President Dan Arnstein, now en route to China...