0 someone who is very good at entertaining people -- шоумен
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.