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...Broadway Showman Billy Rose found himself co-starred with unwanted billing in an impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded...
...until last fall that Cinerama, Inc., controlled by the Reeves Soundcraft Corp., developer of the Cinerama sound system, made a deal to put the new medium in show business. The deal gives exclusive commercial rights to Cinerama films for five years to a company formed by Broadway Showman Michael Todd, radio's Lowell Thomas, and Stockbroker Dudley Roberts...
...worked her way up from amateur nights, began her career in the big-time in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. In a series of turbulent romances she married and left 1) a barber named Frank White, 2) Gambler Nicky Arnstein, 3) Showman Billy Rose, meanwhile won new fame with her famed radio characterization, "Baby Snooks...
...Million-Sized Audiences." A gay and garrulous showman, Iturbi doesn't have to worry about audiences staying away. In eight Hollywood films, he has created an Iturbi following of millions-many of whom never heard a concert pianist in their lives until they went to the neighborhood movie. His records (Victor) have earned him well over $100,000 a year. Last week he wound up his latest U.S. tour with a concert in Miami which won the shouting approval of 2,300 fans. It was a typical Iturbi crowd-pleaser. After his first number, Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata...
Iturbi's friends, as well as his critics, agree that it was Hollywood that brought out the showman in Jose. Says Producer Joe Pasternak, the man who persuaded him to make his first movie: "At first he didn't care for audiences. But when he had appeared in a couple of pictures, he began to feel the pulsing of million-sized audiences. It excited him, and he began playing to the biggest crowds in the world-the people who watch movie screens...