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...with the hair of a Negro, the salt beginning to mix with the pepper, and with little blue eyes buried in his flesh like those of a hippopotamus, clear and mischievous; and an enormous moon face, exactly the way the cartoonists loved to draw him . . . You at once the showman of freaks and prodigies, the vendor of wonders; the traveling salesman for the Arabian nights." At all hours of the day and night, Dumas shoveled food into himself as into a coke furnace. Groaning from violent stomach cramps and unable to sleep, Dumas had no option...
...week's end both disputants exited to the same tunes to which they entered, with Showman Billy Rose grinding out a final bump for ASCAP in a parody of Sixteen Tons...
Back from a seven-week tour behind the Iron Curtain, Showman Billy Rose announced that he had an "agreement in principle" with five Communist countries for an exchange of about 1,000 entertainers. If the State Department approves the exchange, Russia's Bolshoi Theater Ballet may open in Manhattan on New Year's eve, while Moscow on the same night gets a performance by either the New York City Ballet Company, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, Contralto Marian Anderson or Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...Showman Arthur Fiedler led his group of symphony musicians in their old standby's--semi-classical arrangements heavy on strings and brasses. But for the returning Harvardmen, their wives, and children, G. Wright Briggs '31 was the sensation...
...been thinking about it for a decade before shooting started. He devised the choreography, commissioned the music, directed the dancers and the camera, and he dances a leading part in each of the picture's three episodes. Yet when it came to a showdown with his studio bosses, Showman Kelly was forced to play for the quick cash and let the enduring credit go. In the first of his danced playlets, however, Kelly manages to reach something not too far from the Diaghilevel, and that one effort should persuade the ballet enthusiast as well as the movie...