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...From a showman who thinks that the way to evoke the idea of gunshot is to fire a gun. See Music, Ring Dem Bells...
...When Showman Billy Rose offered $1,000,000 worth of his private sculpture collection to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel (TIME, Feb. 8), the offer was quickly accepted, and plans were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city...
...much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman") Merrick for being five minutes late, called it "an indigestible mixture of sex and booze, sex and gambling, sex and broken homes." (March...
...SHOWMAN Billy Rose likes to describe himself as the "Sixth Avenue Medici." Last week he could prove that the statement was no idle boast. In one magnificent gesture, he had given $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel...
...twelve musicians in dinner jackets solemnly walked across the first page (enlarged) of the score of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and began tootling the opening bars of the music they were standing on. The stunt was conceived and conducted by Leonard Bernstein, music's most gifted showman. The proceedings of that TV program and of several others are collected in a bestselling book in which Conductor Bernstein proves himself as handy a man with a pen as he is with a baton...