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...Bernard Herrmann, for the best scoring of a dramatic picture in All That Money Can Buy. His only previous movie music was for Orson Welles's Citizen Kane...
...George Rudolph Herrmann of Galveston, Tex.: "We see only the few sick smokers and lose sight of the great number of smokers who have no symptoms to cause them to consult us. ... We are likely to be obsessed ... by our meagre clinical experiences...
...Great Herrmann, not Kellar, not Thurston, not Houdini was able to make a good thing of a magic show on Broadway, and for the past 13 years Broadway has seen no full-size illusionist's performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala...
...being one of the line of magical great ones, is known to his intimates as "Pop." He has been Dante since 1922. Born in Copenhagen, he went to the U. S. at the age of six, started out as a magician in St. Paul, Minn., after watching The Great Herrmann do his stuff at the opera house there. Besides operating a show of his own, Jansen at one time ran a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually Jansen helped Thurston produce his shows. Shortly thereafter, Thurston and Jansen formed a corporation named Dante the Magician Inc. Three years later Thurston made...
...John Herrmann was a traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...