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...years, have barely kept out of the red. Rival American League teams, including such drawing cards as the New York Yankees, lose money on the trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves when he owned the Cleveland Indians, Veeck shot off fire works before games, imported jitterbugs and contortionists, selected grandstand managers to help run the team, handed out free drinks, and even sneaked a midget into the Browns' lineup (he drew a base...
After Broadway's Billy Rose attended a party at the house of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, Hollywood gossipists (with some subtle encouragement from the little showman himself) launched a new romance. Joan promptly sank it. Said she: "I threw a cocktail party and Billy Rose was there. That's all. I've never been out with him. Funny thing, he still thinks I gave the party...
...little-known ghost story, The Signalman, raised no goose pimples. Surprisingly, the one real nonhumorous success was a dramatic pastiche from A Tale of Two Cities. Even much of the humor was secondbest. Williams did score a bull's-eye with a minor yarn, Mr. Chops. If a showman as gifted as Emlyn Williams ever goes to work on the great comic figures in Dickens -Pecksniff, Micawber, Sairey Gamp, Mrs. Jellyby, the Wellers-he should achieve a truly topnotch show...
...Showman de Mille, serving as his own narrator-pitchman, fills the screen with pageants and parades, finds a spot for 60-odd circus acts: aerialists, sword swallowers, clowns, acrobats, showgirls, lions and tigers, performing dogs, horses, seals, bears and elephants. He is also fascinated by circus logistics: the huge, complex task of getting the show on the road and off, of grappling with such photogenic jobs as unfurling acres of canvas and raising them into...
...Showman Campbell tired desperately to remember some of the less complicated symphonies in his repertoire. He successfully got the show going again in a few minutes...