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...since Belasco and Ziegfeld has the theater produced such a successful and spectacular producer-star. To the millions who follow his exclamatory career on the front pages and the late shows, he gleefully presents himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold, bad Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich...
...they contend that Merrick's angles and bangles and broad Broadway way have revived the allure of live theater for thousands who had come to think that actors are just people who live in a tube. And finally, they add defiantly, Merrick is far more than a show-off showman. If his vaulting ambitions do not o'erleap, he may even be remembered as a considerable theatrical re former, a man who with one sudden brainstorm built up a new creative tide in the U.S. theater...
Comparing the rise in football's popularity with baseball's decline, Veeck noted, "Baseball is still the greatest game; it has to be, for what we've done for it." Citing that football can be exciting no matter who is playing, the baseball showman stated that baseball games must become more fun for the fans...
...concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
RESPIGHI: ROMAN FESTIVALS (RCA Victor). Zubin Mehta, who prides himself on being a showman as well as a fine musician, sets off multicolored fireworks in his first recording as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (and the first from the Pavilion of Los Angeles' new Music Center...