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...versatile, more productive, does all his own work. He never brought to his upper-class tragicomedies the range or authority or humor of Philip Barry, but he has lasted longer. All these qualities which Noel Coward has and has not have made him the world's most prosperous showman. He has written 26 plays and musicomedies since 1920, acted, danced, sung in most of them. In the past ten years he has grossed more than $5,000,000 in the U. S. and British theatre...
There are two ways of attacking Shakespeare: firstly, the intellectual point of view of the student; and secondly, the showman's point of view. The latter looks at the production as simply a play, written by a modern playwright. His object is to bring out the drama, make the audience understand the action, impress them...
...oldtime Broadway producer is 73-year-old William Augustin Brady, father of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Grace George. In a Saturday Evening Post reminiscence last spring, Mr. Brady remarked, apropos topical productions: "A showman often has to stick pretty close to the news to get the most out of his public." While summering at Lakewood, Maine, Showman Brady has lately been sticking close to the financial news-so close that last week he was in it. On this occasion he was concerned with getting the most out of his stock rather than his public...
...common stockholders' committee of Philadelphia's great Baldwin Locomotive Works Showman Brady sent a letter on behalf of "William A. Brady & Brady Enterprises," refusing assent to the re-organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe...
...Irate Showman Brady was at pains to point out last week that Baldwin's orders had increased nearly 100% over 1935. Its bookings for the first seven months of 1936 were valued at $19,528,000, compared to $10,562,000 in the same period last year. Baldwin does not make a half yearly report but most of the other big railroad equipment companies do. Reports from twelve of them for the first half of this year showed aggregate earnings of $9,334,000, compared to an aggregate loss of $219,000 in the first half...