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Died. Samuel Gumpertz, 84, veteran showman, onetime (1932-37) vice president and general manager of Ringling Brothers Circus, onetime manager of Coney Island's Dreamland and Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Sarasota...
...last word on Churchill is usually by Churchill. Wisely hugging the foothills of anecdote, Robert Lewis Taylor, the New Yorker profiler, has put together a crisp, readable "informal study of greatness." Unable to wangle a single interview with the "old man in a hurry," he nonetheless brings the old showman onstage for every star turn of his dramatic life...
...Companions, recounting a celebrated 1810 slander suit that followed a vindictive schoolgirl's false accusation against her two spinster teachers, was the inspiration for Playwright Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour. Fact-Writer Roughead was called by Novelist Dorothy Sayers "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...orders in the will of Showman Earl Carroll, who died four years ago in a plane crash in Pennsylvania, was finally carried out: a life-size bronze of a nude woman was placed over his tomb in Glendale, Calif...
...life is to figure in the list of spurious personalities who make up café society. Those who have seen him from inside the circus know him as a stubborn man of uncommon determination, whose whole life is devoted to proving himself as big a man and a better showman than his uncle, John Ringling...