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From the first Mr. Reno ran into bad showman's luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long...
Arthur Oakes, at 165 pounds, has all the makings of a showman to rival Phi Hines. He had control of the situation with sharp left jabs to the head, followed by rights to the body...
...think of Liszt as a saintly white-haired old man who crowned a rich musical life by dedicating himself to God. Critic Newman thinks differently, takes sides with Countess Marie d'Agoult who sacrificed a proud position, bore Liszt three children and saw him truly as a superficial showman so dependent on adulation that he could never adjust himself to solitude and concentrated work. Liszt kept his shallow ways even after he turned to the Church. He repented periodically but he reverted always to the spotlight, to flatterers who kissed his hand, cherished his cigar butts, begged for locks...
...Lovejoy took his place as chief executive officer. Both have been with Eastman since the 1890's. Three younger executives were promoted to vice presidencies including Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of the research laboratories. British-born and bred, Researcher Mees is sometimes accused of being a showman and his laboratories show windows, but his international standing as a photographic authority is unquestioned. Trained at London University, he speaks four languages fluently which is four more than Kodak tradition entirely approves...
...great delight, a police escort cleared the way to City Hall. Bumbling Mayor O'Brien was out. Said Annie: 'I ain't going to wait. I'm just as Irish as he is." She had tea with caviar in a swank restaurant, dined with Showman Samuel L. ("Roxy'') Rothafel, saw a preview of Lady For A Day. Taken to a farewell supper, she waltzed, drank, acted as if her Day were to last forever. At midnight Apple Annie vanished from the ball. The pressagents gave her $25 and the clothes she wore, dropped...