Examples of showman

• The performance was a great success and the showman collected a tidy sum of money.

• The showman explained that twenty years ago he collected five pounds a week on average, earning seven or eight shillings from each street performance.

• The new cinematic technologies mesmerized audiences in ways that the most imaginative showman could never hope to with his primitive animation efforts.

• First, his style was that of the showman, with big parades a speciality.

• One projection disintegrates into another in accordance with the showman's dramatic needs.

• These individuals may have hoped to create an image of themselves as savants as well as, or perhaps rather than, showmen.

• During the middle of the nineteenth century respectability became an important marketing device for all itinerant showmen.

• They were particularly repulsed by flamboyant showmen who pandered to the hoi polloi with what were seen as vulgar demonstrations to fee-paying audiences.