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...Bantam Barnum." Billy Rose's skyrocket career as a showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...beaneries as stale bagels. To keep up the chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...important actions last week. For $3,600,000, it bought all the Saskatchewan holdings of the power network of Canadian Utilities Ltd. This gave the government's Power Commission possession of the last private power system of any consequence in the province. Then, in the provincial legislature, bantam-sized Premier Thomas Clement Douglas told how things had been going with the other enterprises* his government has socialized in the past 2½ years. Things were going pretty well...
Penguin Books in the U.S., financially independent of English Penguins but closely tied editorially, has never come close to the sales of its two-bit rivals, Pocket Books and Bantam Books. In seven years, Pocket Books has sold 152 million books in the U.S., by a canny formula of catering to mystery-story and drugstore novel addicts, with a slim proportion of "prestige" books. Only last month Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre became the first U.S. Penguin to sell a million copies. But Penguin, along with a smattering of mysteries, has consistently put out first-rate...
...Jolson Story is the first production job of an amateur: bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky. While insisting that journalism is his profession, Skolsky has dabbled in picture-making for years, occasionally walking through bit parts as a gag or tossing out a helpful suggestion to studio executives...