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...characters are insignificant puppets; the situations are replete with refined slapstick and flippant chatter just one level above that of a mediocre burlesque show, and Noel Coward's personality remains aloof in the background. He is there; for he is, without any doubt, a superior showman who knows the mood of the public. As a movie, "Private Lives" is one of the few that will keep your interest to the end. The photography is particularly skillful in the Alps scenes, and is never slipshod. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are convincing lunatics, boisterously funny...
...came down at Columbus for fuel and nearly lost his mind when it took him 20 minutes to rouse a field attendant. On & on he streaked, touching earth thrice again for fuel, whipping over Los Angeles' Municipal Airport just as the opening parade was getting under way. Practiced showman that he is, Turner, the hometown boy, could not have timed his triumphant entry more dramatically. The crowds in the stands (48,000) went wild with delight as he kicked his ship up in a gleeful chandelle, a winner. His time: 11 hr. 30 min. Less than a half-hour...
...Showman. The real showman of the Morgan investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime...
...later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight...
quot;Wicked" Hearst. All these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic...