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...camera-angles. There is a consistent tone to the piece, a tone that was lacking in "Frankenstein," with its weakening comedy interludes. The extravagance and absurdity of the plot is somehow reconciled by the opening scene sin the mountebank's tent, which set the key for shivery theatricality. Mirakle, showman that he is, can heap leer on leer and only add to our pleasure...
Capitalist, sportsman, showman, philanthropist, Bill Wrigley was to the man in the street the perfect example of the Poor Boy Who Made Good. His life to the newsie was the great American legend; and every newsie could outline its cogent paragraphs: ran away from home in Philadelphia at the age of eleven to sell newspapers in Manhattan; back to Philadelphia to sell soap for his father; into the towns of eastern Pennsylvania where he came to be known as the Wonder Boy Salesman; finally to Chicago, where he peddled more soap, then baking powder and then, because he found...
...Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...
After deliberating 65 hours, a jury in Los Angeles acquitted Alexander Pantages, 59, theatre operator, in his second trial on the charge of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 19, dancer. Courtroom spectators cheered loudly, leaped atop their chairs, milled about the rich showman and his wife. On his first trial, two years ago, Mr. Pantages was convicted, sentenced to prison for 1-to-50 years. Promptly Miss Pringle began suit for $1,000,000 damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for-and won-a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating...