Word: showmanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heart attack; in Rapid City, S. Dak. Berry went into the cattle business in his teens, built up a 30,000-acre ranch before going to the state legislature, which he called "The Follies of 1925" and regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails and rode like hell." He once astonished a Washington redcap by demanding: "Hell, boy, where...
Manhattan's tabloids called it "The War of the Roses." It started last July when Broadway Showman Billy Rose tried to suppress the news that blonde Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared...
...score cards of their Sportsman's Park rivals: ''The Cardinals, a dignified St. Louis Institution." The note was good for a few tired jeers from fans who remembered the Cards' rowdy old Gas House Gang. But it was not the kind of hint to faze Showman Bill Veeck, who operates on the theory that baseball can be the greatest show on earth...
...Comden & Adolph Green; produced by Arthur Lesser) can smile gratefully at its stars, Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Lahr remains among the best of the oldtime funnymen, and there are virtually no new ones. He has a nice comic face, he can make nice comic faces. He has a showman's sixth sense; his antics have authority. Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs. As Captain Universe, leading the Space Patrol in a piece of stupendous interplanetary science fiction...
Dolores Gray, back on Broadway after wowing London for three years in Annie Get Your Gun, is a good showman too, and a very fetching singer. With a voice as hearable as it is husky, she rolls out Give a Little, Get a Little Love, rat-tat-tats the lyrics of a crisp patter song, If You Hadn...