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...test new ideas of staging, as well as to train playwrights, is somewhat of an Indictment against regular producers. In his recent book Oliver Sayler wrote to the American producer that: "At his worst he is without parallel for ignorance, incompetence. At his average, he is an excellent showman. The fact that experimentation is costly explains perhaps why until recent years very little departure was ever made from the usual manner of selecting and presenting plays. Even low the public is somewhat apathetic to innovations, as certain English producers discovered to their sorrow. So if the tendency to mediocrity...
...juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
...jane - But Needs America's Uncanny Showman The horn of France's theatrical plenty is to be opened and two of the choicest bits transferred for brief consumption in America. Réjane, tragedienne who has succeeded Bernhardt in the first place in the hearts of France, will come over within a year; next September comes the Folies Bergeres, parent of our own Follies, Scandals, Passing Show, Vanities...
...guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that. Tex Austin is the promoter of the big new rodeo, and he obviously intends to go about it in a showman-like way. He has hired the new Yankee Stadium for a period of ten days in August when the Yankees will be away and he intends to offer $50,000 in prize money-double the total prize money offered at the Madison Square Garden rodeo last winter. The entry list...
...manager of brass bands, and finally secretary of the San Carlo Company. The troupe was doing poorly, and soon went stranded down in the Southwest Gallo bought out the owner for a small price, and immediately started the company toward success. He is very shrewd and a good showman has a genius for the handling of singers. He subdues these difficult persons, not by any show of authority and dignity, but with delightful effusions of South Italian blarney. Early in his career he adopted the policy of " small salaries, but sure," and after much display of diplomacy educated his singers...