Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...
Last week, Martin & Lewis got three offers from TV sponsors, turned them all down to wait for a sponsor who will parlay them on both radio & television. Even without sponsors, the team will earn close to $750,000 in 1949. But radio cannot show the half of what Martin & Lewis have; they must be seen, on television or in a nightclub...
Critics and collectors disagree with her. Isabel Bishop's paintings hang in more than a dozen of the country's top museums; when a Manhattan gallery last week staged her first show of oils in ten years, it had to borrow almost half of the show from previous buyers. A painstaking worker, Bishop finishes only four or five paintings a year...
Like Birds. One such "little thing" in Bishop's new show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course...
Loughborough lowbrows were less impressed with Skegness, and Alfred Warbis, father of the painter, shared their opinion that it was not much. A commercial artist by trade, the senior Warbis had two academic pictures in the show himself, was surprised to find them somewhat eclipsed by his son's work. Skegness, said Alfred Warbis, was "horrible-he's got the boats upside down, and he couldn't even sign his name; he had to print...