Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with more features, more color, more competitors than ever before, the National Horse Show Association opened its 53rd show. In spite of decolletage, diamonds and decorative elegance on view in the boxes, the most colorful costumes were in the ring. This year the Horse Show had brought to Manhattan its most successful feature to date, 40 members of Canada's crack cavalry unit, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, senior regiment of Canada's Army...
...most responsible for putting new blood into the National is its stocky, high-strung manager Edward ("Ned") King, Manhattan socialite who once worked as cartoonist for Rider and Driver and the World-Telegram, started managing the Horse Show five years ago. His conversation is as horsy as the show he runs. Instead of saying: "Please say that over again," Ned King invariably says: "Please come back to the post." Of horse shows and horsemen he philosophizes: "Most people are like horses. Some are stayers, others sprint and too many are incorrigible. We ought to have a saliva test...
Since extra features such as the Dragoons have had much to do with the Horse Show's present success, Manager King and the Horse Show's directors have hired the Dragoons to appear at every evening performance and at four matinees during the run of the Show this week. The fact that the Horse Show Association has publicized their presence so widely is one indication of what is happening to the National. The Show is becoming less & less an exhibition, more & more the kind of colorful pageant that the riding academies of oldtime Vienna put on before...
...show the Broadway critics puffed last season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...
This week both the simple and elaborate methods of rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features...