Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glad to get back to Cleveland to do some creative showmanship, "Linc" Dickey finished up his blueprints for a Great Lakes Exposition early last winter, laid them on the desk of Cleveland's No. 1 philanthropist, Dudley Stuart Blossom. Enthusiastic Mr. Blossom promptly agreed to bear all development costs...
Pointing to Chicago's Century of Progress, which was five years in the making, and to New York's 1939 World's Fair, for which ground was broken on the Flushing, L. I., meadows last week, Clevelanders boasted that their Exposition had taken just So days to...
So poor an attraction was Father Dillinger and his stories of Son John that his female manager discharged him after three days. Second most ballyhooed exhibit of the Midway was "The Bouquet of Life," a "fearless, daring, beautiful" series of human embryos from three days to 240. For Cleveland'...
Fan Dancer Sally Rand was more responsible for the success of Chicago's Century of Progress (1933-34) than any other single individual. Stripped of all its cultural appeal, the Great Lakes Exposition will be put across, if at all, by the bare body of Toto Leverne as displayed...
At the French Casino she appears with nothing but a stuffed swan's neck in front of her, dispenses with even that in her finale. Theatrically indignant at her surroundings last week, she declared: "Imagine me dancing in a tent! I came here thinking it was the Mayfair Casino...