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...curtain came down on an important antitrust case kst week. In Manhattan, Federal Judge John C. Knox dismissed the Government's four-year-old antitrust suit against Showmen Jacob J. Shubert, the late Lee Shubert and four other defendants, for monopolizing the legitimate-theater business in the U.S. Citing the Supreme Court's refusal to apply the antitrust laws to professional baseball, Judge Knox ruled that the showmen enjoyed the same freedom from antitrust action...
...long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie shook her head: "I stood up, I stood...
...soldier of the old U.S. Army. A lean, bowlegged cavalryman, he spent his happiest days in the hard-riding, spur and saber atmosphere of the vanishing Army posts of the West. In an age that produced Army men of many talents-generals who could double as diplomats, showmen, orators or businessmen-"Skinny" Wainwright, a fine horseman,* a crack shot and an all-round good officer, was never anything but a soldier. He had no conspicuous hobbies, outstanding social virtues or noteworthy vices. But his men believed in him, and they followed him to the limit at Bataan and Corregidor...
Broadway this week is as expectant as a darkened theater just before curtain time. In loft buildings and on sceneryless stages, a dozen casts are rehearsing for the coming season. At straw-hat theaters across the U.S., more than 50 other plays have already made bids for Broadway. Veteran showmen, scanning the theatrical horizon, counted the biggest batch of new shows in many a year...
...chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly be the first to admit that he has done as much as anyone to make an industry...