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Arithmetic is as much a concern to the 60 professional showmen who have cast their pitch in the New York World's Fair amusement area as it is to the amateur showmen who are struggling with the Big Show itself. At the last audit, fortnight ago, the amusement section had divided a take from Fair visitors of a shade over $3,000,000, and it was not enough...
Most audacious of astronomical showmen is James Stokley, director since 1933 of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. Big, stooped Mr. Stokley (rhymes with Annie Oakley) this week arrives in Pittsburgh to become director of the Buhl Institute of Popular Science and Buhl Planetarium (to open this fall...
...story of the Gunthers is wholly symbolic. Real hero of the play is the American outlook, its love of enterprise and liberty. This is an inspiring theme. But working crudely, emotionally, in headlines, Kaufman & Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade...
Earlier in the week the Prime Minister had taken a severe tongue-lashing at the hands of shaggy-maned Liberal Lloyd George, Britain's Wartime Prime Minister. Supporting a Labor motion of "no confidence" in the Prime Minister, 75-year-old Lloyd George, one of the best showmen in the House of Commons, had the M.P.s rolling in the aisles when he twitted the 69-year-old Prime Minister about his age and lack of courage. Of Mr. Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier at Munich, Lloyd George declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their...
Knights of Song (by Glendon Allvine; produced by Laurence Schwab) is a musical show about the most famous of musical showmen, Gilbert & Sullivan. Besides providing a chance to go to town with their music, a play about them has comic and dramatic opportunities: Sullivan's long love affair with married, U. S.-born Cynthia Bradley; the violent wrangling between the two collaborators, who could not work peaceably together nor successfully apart; Queen Victoria's affection for genial, diplomatic Sullivan (John Moore), whom she knighted in 1883; her aversion to jealous, crusty Gilbert (Nigel Bruce), whom it was left...