Word: showmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drama and Corn. Patton the General is also Patton the Actor. Showmanship is instinctive in him. Like all practiced actors he can manage a deft touch of corn or a flight of oratory. He fits his act to his audience's mood. Example : his greeting to a Negro battalion arriving at his battle front-"I don't give a damn what color you are so long as you get out there and kill those sons of bitches in the green suits...
...Father William J. Finn (TIME, July 24), onetime choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who trained and directed his singers as a "demonstration" in his lifelong fight to revive Renaissance music. Irreverent observers (who nonetheless have a wholesome respect for Father Finn's showmanship) promptly dubbed the choir "Finn's Jennies." The talkative, 63-year-old conductor called them "esthetically aware...
Credit for the suave showmanship went to Conductor Karl Kreuger, 50, U.S.-born, Vienna-trained, one of the four top native-born maestros in the U.S. (the others: Leonard Bernstein, Werner Janssen, Alfred Wallenstein). Maestro Kreuger had snatched up Detroit's baton late in 1943, whipped his 110 players into shape in record time. Carnegie Hall rewarded his energy with a favorable verdict: Detroit's music is as lush, efficient, unsubtle and breath-taking as Detroit's glamor-drawings of the postwar family sedan...
...pint-sized, 45-year-old Billy Rose, The Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...
...William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas Manning removed...