Word: showman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
...days prior, Inquisitor Seabury had questioned an old client of the Mayor's, one Abraham Schwartz, showman and realtor. Showman Schwartz reconstructed the scene of the Mayor's introducing him to Fugitive Sherwood: " 'Abe,' he says, 'I am the Mayor of the City of New York now, and all transactions of business-take it up with Sherwood, whatever he does, it suits...
...wouldn't tax a corpse, would you?" asked Showman Brady, looking sorrowfully from ator. "Well, I tell you, the legitimate stage is a corpse just about ready for the potter's field." He estimated that 70% of U. S. theatres were under foreclosure. At this point Oklahoma's Gore started to interrupt, but Showman Brady checked him. "There's not one in your State, Senator." said he. "Shakespeare's a lost art in Oklahoma...
...lieu of the theatre admissions tax, Showman Brady had a variety of proposals: a 1? levy on all newspapers, a 5? excise on magazines weighing over a pound, radio and cruise-to-nowhere taxes. "Every American, so it is said, is a born gambler," he continued, leading up dramatically to his prime suggestion. "Buying and selling stock on the market is gambling pure and simple. The only difference between that and outright gambling is that . . . you don't see the cards, you don't see the wheel go round, you don't see the dice roll...
...cultured women he would have been almost unrecognizable to his Oklahoma friends. His diction was as correct as his clothes. His shoes were shined; a white handkerchief bobbed from his breast pocket; gone was the old sweat-stained felt hat. He won respect and admiration. Such is his showman...