Word: showmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of Texas Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier Centennial" was planned...
Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...
...France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three weeks...
Most uncertain of businesses is the show business. Most uncertain of show businesses are world's fairs because 1) they require huge investment, 2) they require huger ballyhoo, 3) their impresarios are generally businessmen, not trained showmen. Last week Chicago closed its second venture in this dangerous business-supposed to close Oct. 31 but prolonged through twelve chill and unprofitable November days-and began to take stock...
...week's end, no one had yet put pants on the Century of Progress' drunken, naked midnight fun. The showmen even audaciously invited Fair officials to call in the police, if they were willing to risk law suits. Fair officials finally saved their faces by moving the weekday closing hour up to 2 a. m. On Saturdays, they agreed, visitors may raise Ned all night...