Word: showman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reverently to the music, became a part of the great singing orchestra, made his most intricate runs seem incidental. Despite the attention he has won in Europe and the U. S., he still seemed flustered by the applause. All his life he has made music numbly, not as a showman. When he was a boy in Vienna his parents were so poor that they had only one room for themselves and eight children. There in the din and clatter young Rudolf learned to play...
Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
...versatile, more productive, does all his own work. He never brought to his upper-class tragicomedies the range or authority or humor of Philip Barry, but he has lasted longer. All these qualities which Noel Coward has and has not have made him the world's most prosperous showman. He has written 26 plays and musicomedies since 1920, acted, danced, sung in most of them. In the past ten years he has grossed more than $5,000,000 in the U. S. and British theatre...
There are two ways of attacking Shakespeare: firstly, the intellectual point of view of the student; and secondly, the showman's point of view. The latter looks at the production as simply a play, written by a modern playwright. His object is to bring out the drama, make the audience understand the action, impress them...
...Irate Showman Brady was at pains to point out last week that Baldwin's orders had increased nearly 100% over 1935. Its bookings for the first seven months of 1936 were valued at $19,528,000, compared to $10,562,000 in the same period last year. Baldwin does not make a half yearly report but most of the other big railroad equipment companies do. Reports from twelve of them for the first half of this year showed aggregate earnings of $9,334,000, compared to an aggregate loss of $219,000 in the first half...