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...decade or so ago, Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
...Showman Burnside has long since abandoned the Hippodrome to vaudeville, cinema, possible demolition (TIME, Feb 11). Lately he went to the seaboard's playground, Atlantic City, N. J., to institute a new Hippodrome show-house. Last week, in a $15,000,000 auditorium which seats 41,000, he presented Here and There, a pageant calculated to crowd what is reputedly the world's largest indoor stage...
...unbuttoned, trousers unbelted, wild-eyed in a mauve pajama jacket, Morris Gest, theatre man (The Miracle), arrived in Denver in an automobile. Near Stratton, Col., a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons had drowned. Showman Gest described the accident repeatedly, volubly to newsgatherers : how the cars had rolled over on their sides in the water; how he, asleep, tad had a "rude" awakening; how he grabbed in-the dark, caught his watch-chain hanging from the upper berth, bashed through the window, clambered...
...their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...Showman. As President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce Frederick B. Rentschler was the god above the show. As President of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. he was a big power. As President of United Airport and Transport Co. he was both a much respected and a much puzzled...