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...with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...
Mayor LaGuardia cheerfully repeated his remark, Showman Billy Rose put in a bid for the chamber of horrors fair concession, and the German press still growled, but the latter remained conspicuously silent about another passage in the "dirty Talmud Jew's" remarks. He had also said: "I mean the Hitler Government . . . irresponsible . . . because it is . . . financially bankrupt." And a statement much more injurious to Germany than Mayor LaGuardia's appeared last week on the front page of the New York Times, in a cable from Berlin Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus calling German finance "a blacker art than ever...
...SHOWMAN-William A. Brady-Button ($3). An old war horse of the theatre, father of Alice Brady, husband of Grace George, who rose from the Bowery by promoting everything from prize rights (Jim Corbett) to plays, tells in his own or somebody else's racy lingo how he reached the top of the Main Stem...
...reverently to the music, became a part of the great singing orchestra, made his most intricate runs seem incidental. Despite the attention he has won in Europe and the U. S., he still seemed flustered by the applause. All his life he has made music numbly, not as a showman. When he was a boy in Vienna his parents were so poor that they had only one room for themselves and eight children. There in the din and clatter young Rudolf learned to play...
Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...