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Responsible for the phenomenal growth of this program in three years is George V. Denny Jr., director of the League for Political Education which founded Town Hall and the Town Meeting of the Air. Showman Denny had managed the Carolina Playmakers at University of North Carolina, been an actor on Broadway, managed a lecture bureau and directed Columbia University's Institute of Arts and Sciences before he arrived at Town Hall in 1930. The League, founded by a group of women suffragists, had for 40 years provided a platform for civic reformers, outstanding Americans from William Jennings Bryan...
...Dropped from U. S. Olympic team for breaking training rules on the way to the 1936 Olympic Games, she made $30,000 swimming in Showman Billy Rose's Cleveland Exposition last summer. In November she and Rose said they would marry as soon as they could get divorces, she from Crooner Art Jarrett, he from Comedienne Fanny Brice. Of diminutive, 36-year-old Billy, said Eleanor: "He's got everything Robert Taylor...
...audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus...
Granted. To Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
Died. Thomas M. ("Doc") Sayman, 83, famed Middlewestern manufacturer of Sayman's soaps, salves and patent medicines; in St. Louis. An oldtime medicine showman,-"Doc" Sayman set up his St. Louis soap factory in 1894, erected a glass case near the entrance and installed therein the stuffed skin of Dolly, the horse that had pulled him many a mile in his itinerant days. Fond of flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions...