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Died. Valentine Charles Parnell, 78, "Britain's No. 1 Showman" and longtime impresario of the London Palladium; in London. The son of a vaudeville ventriloquist, Parnell rose from office boy in a theatrical booking agency to become director of 400 theaters and music halls. To the Palladium he brought modern microphones and high-priced U.S. stars, both new to music-hall audiences, and soon turned the old moviehouse into one of the world's eminent stages...
Joan of Arc has been many people to many writers. To Al Carmines, the off-Broadway clergyman-showman (TIME, May 22), she is an idealist with a square build, a butch haircut, a belting voice, and a yen for planting bombs in public toilets for the sake of the revolution...
...artist, and I think any of his real achievements may be racked up as happy accidents. There is a thin line in entertainment between sensual indulgence and out-and-out voyeurism; an artist transcends these categories by the necessities of his statement or his vision, but the showman has to rely on his taste, and when Hitchcock has consciously worked on the level of a thrill-show con-man--as in The Birds--he's been at his worst...
...skit at a McGovern rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week, Showman Mike Nichols, playing an all-round expert, tried to explain the candidate's economic policy to Worried Liberal Elaine...
With mixed feelings of "joy and paranoia," Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, 53, appeared before a tough, critical audience last week: the National Press Club in Washington. To the newsmen, the protean showman defended his Mass-the liturgical theater piece he wrote to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last September. One of the many misconceptions he wanted to clear up, said Lenny, was the idea that Rose Kennedy hated the composition. "The only quotes I ever read of hers in the press were 'I liked Hair better' and 'Don't hug me so hard...