Word: showmanship
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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France believes that Réjane can surpass Duse. This she will emphatically not do unless her managers persuade Morris Gest to act as her American representative. It is the uncanny showmanship of Gest, fully as much as the ability of Duse, that has spelled success for her in such amazing fashion...
...notable exception, aforementioned, was Mrs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Mrs. Joyce is not a vaudeville actress. Her stage is all the world. So many of her vagaries, nuptial and otherwise, have been chronicled in the daily bulletins that Mr. Carroll evinced an unerring flash of showmanship when he picked her for his orchid. He knew that she could neither sing nor dance. Yet the world derives a curious thrill from gazing at a woman of many marriages...