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...last, despairing of finding anyone willing to pay its acknowledged worth, Showman Vollbehr offered the collection to the U. S. Government for the Library of Congress. Said he in effect: "I cut the price in half. Let the U. S. donate $1,500,000. Then I will donate...
...Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would be "somewhere between Washington and Baltimore." Newsmen soon discovered that his representatives had been scrutinizing an air field at flat Hybla Valley in Virginia, ten miles south of Washington...
Germany. Professor Max The Miracle Reinhardt pooled his resources with Showman Curtis Melnitz, onetime Berlin manager for United Artists Theatre Circuit of America, and bought controlling interest last week in Terra Film, a leading German cinema firm which he will use to produce German talkie operettas, later talkie operas...
...fables connecting him with people he could never have known. He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show. Legend also has it that he frequently played at dice with Showman Adam Forepaugh. Mr. Fellowes does recall having once seen Showman Forepaugh in his father's Hartford, Conn., drug store...
...directed the taking of the films has used a different technique than is common in most educational pictures. Realizing that the common tendency has been to present subjects from an unusual angle with the result of sacrificing many points of importance, he has tried to combine the showman's technical knowledge of motion picture taking with the information of the trained scientist...