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...band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile and the twirling cane as he struts and soft-shoes around the dance floor, looking like a cross between the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse and talking out (he is no singer...
...Very likely this rumor got around because for years few people ever saw it played. Performed on Broadway last week for the first time since 1917, it pranced and hallooed and came hilariously to life, giving further reason for saluting Shaw's ghost with: "This was the noblest showman of them...
...Showman in Misalliance Shaw certainly was - far more, indeed, than dramatist. He is armed with a text of sorts - family life in all possible aspects. But far from expounding it from a pulpit, he scatters it bit by bit in a wild game of hare & hounds. Its chief bit is parents & children, a theme for which Shaw had perfect Shavian qualifications: he was never a parent and quite possibly never a child. He effortlessly makes mincemeat of the two distinguished fathers in his play, and little monsters of their daughters & sons. The war between the generations ticked off. he turns...
...trip to Europe to help forget his domestic troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough...
Scholar & Showman. It takes a peculiar combination of scholar, executive and showman to run a venture like the Metropolitan. Francis Taylor seems to have the combination. Says a friend: "He has the administrative ability of Eisenhower and the scheming patience of Machiavelli, and he bears a striking resemblance to Rodin's bust of Louis XVI." Moreover, and more important, he can work in harness with such diverse types as learned curators and unlearned but connoisseur trustees...