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...biggest dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...
...opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink called the Zombie, shrewdly advertised: "Only Two Zombies to a Customer." Imperturbable showman Proser himself doesn't like rum, sticks to Scotch-&-water, once told a New Yorker reporter: "I got a lot of saloons. So what...
Last week America's dwarfish No. 1 showman, Billy Rose, again earned his rank, solved the long-vexing problem of how to give shows for soldiers - at least during the outdoor season. His solution was a combination of top talent plus a revival of the old rolling medicine-show technique...
...Next week I start Charley's Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...
...Saints wore star-spangled, red-white-&-blue uniforms (which made Showman Slip Madigan's St. Mary's-of-California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...