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...Angeles judge agreed that the grave of Showman Earl Carroll, in Forest Lawn cemetery, could be decorated with a new monument. He authorized the estate to pay $10,000 for a near-life-sized bronze statue of a winged nude, completed by Sculptor Adolf Alexander Weinman in 1915 and called Wings of Hope...
After sitting on his plans for weeks and enjoying all the rumors, Rudolf Bing this week announced his plans for the Met next season. Showman Bing's biggest news...
...influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
...year-old farmer named Robert E. Bunker died last week at his home on the outskirts of Mount Airy, a rural community in North Carolina. He was the last of twelve children of Eng, half of the once-famed pair of Siamese twins displayed throughout the nation by Showman P. T. Barnum in the early 19th Century...