Word: barnumism
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Last week Sol Hurok, ballet's Barnum, who has done as much as anyone to make the art an industry, confessed in Variety: "Ballet, we must admit, is not an essential commodity. The public can live without...
...Lady Pirate. One day in 1935 brown-haired Mollie Slott, mother-hen of the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, marched in to the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, the P. T. Barnum of the U.S. comic strip. "There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...
Besides being the greatest football coach of his day, Rockne was a chemistry prof and a keen student of human emotions. He was also one of the greatest showmen since P. T. Barnum. With names like Madigan, McMullan, Murphy and Moynihan in his lineup, he dressed his men in Kelly green (the colors of Notre Dame are blue & gold) and they became famous as the Fighting Irish...
...sand with them when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
Rose, who likes to pose as a lovable little gaffer, runs plugs for some of his rival saloonkeepers' shows, admires other space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more...