Word: showmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University. . . . Previously he had been an instructor at a girls' college. . . . Today . . . as he sails for Europe, ensconced in the royal suite, reporters besiege him for a word, while Kings. Ambassadors, Prime Ministers, Premiers and publicists . . . anxiously await his arrival . . . accompanied by one of the greatest showmen in the world [Adviser Swope] . . . . He is an unobtrusive, quiet person, pleasant, but not particularly impressive, and certainly not brilliant." Nevertheless, the world so needed Statesman Moley that when his ship reached Cobh, Ireland an airplane was waiting to fly him to London. But Statesman Moley sailed on to Plymouth...
...real "hot" jazz will be shown as coming from Negro performers like mad Buddy Bolden-free-lance trumpeters, saxophonists and trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good...
Fact remained that even if the public had packed all the seats of the Music Hall twice daily, the margin of profit, after taking out Roxy's $100,000 weekly overhead, would have been extremely small. Showmen recalled the old Hippodrome, last seat of spectacles. There one used to be able to witness such theatrical colossi as herds of performing elephants, tanks full of mermaidens, the siege of Port Arthur, the capture of Veracruz. Public apathy landed the spectacular old Hippodrome on the rocks in 1929. As holder of one of the largest individual stakes...
Small dapper Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York is one of the best showmen in the House of Representatives. An M. D., he has been known to line up a row of grisly exhibits across the Speaker's rostrum to impress upon his colleagues the evils of narcotics. He is the author of Ten Commandments to End the Depression. He is also the author of three plays. To the assistance of other playwrights and other showmen Congressman Sirovich rode full tilt last week...
...side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon." For placing a breadline (the American calls it a "sandwich line") in the most con- spicuous spot he could find, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has drawn bitter condemnation from a variety of sources. Showmen declared that the spectacle of misery at the doors of their theatres caused strollers to change their minds about spending money for fun. Merchants charged that out-of-town buyers are actually depressed by the scene to the point of curtailing orders. Many an observer has seized the handy conclusion that...