Word: barnumism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHEN Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show folded its tent, when P. T. Barnum's museum closed down, when the Ziegfeld Follies put their feathers and bangles away, when the "legitimate theater" was pushed off gay, white Broadway into the dusky sidestreets of Manhattan, when the movies killed vaudeville and when the movies in turn were nearly killed by TV-each time, the gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater...
...additional $6.75 in state aid in the interval before the regular 1960 census count. The contracts were signed, the counters went to work, and Wagner saw to it that the census takers even counted in the crew of an aircraft carrier and the cast of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus...
Scope for Scope. Freberg, 31, is a very funny fellow who is clearly torn between his need for an audience and his desire to speak his mind. His orneriness was planed down over the past year when he and Producer-Writer Pete Barnum wrote and rewrote a long succession of TV shows for NBC. All were rejected because they lacked "scope." When the sardonic pair then submitted a new effort entitled Scope, NBC wished them a cold farewell...
...Barnum's Blood Brother. Williams believes that society in any stage of evolution gets the newspapers it deserves. "The press," he says, "is the mirror of its age because the degree of authority and independence it is permitted to exercise, or is able to seize for itself, and the nature of its influence on public opinion, throw light on the real balance of power in a society." Newspapers can no longer influence readers as they did when government was less complex and the electorate less educated. As the phenomenally successful Lord Northcliffe once told Daily Mail staffers...
...women who can wear his severely elegant suits and dresses, the designer's designer is a handsome Spaniard named Cristobal Balenciaga. His admirers speak of him as of a dark, mysterious priest in an inner shrine. Said one elegant Parisienne: "Dior is a great publicist, a kind of Barnum of fashion. He has superb workrooms, everything is beautifully and interestingly done. But the only real designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year-old Balenciaga refuses to admit the press to his showings, avoids all Paris society, appeals to women who like his austere, sculptural designs...