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...years Christian Reisner, A.B., S. T. B., D.D., has earned the distinction of getting his name and his works into the public prints more frequently than any other Manhattan pastor. An amiable showman, he runs his church like a business venture. Born in Atchison, Kans. 62 years ago; Dr. Reisner went to Manhattan from successful pastorates in Kansas City and Denver. Decade ago he envisioned a great 44-story Temple which would include apartments, recreation rooms, offices, shops and an illuminated cross visible for miles. An expert on church advertising and publicity. Dr. Reisner raised $5,000,000 before Depression...
Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums...
Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...
...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...