Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...
FURTHER - Amelie Posse-Brazdová -Dutton ($3.50). Continuation of the autobiography begun in Sardinian Sideshow, recounting life in post-War Italy, meetings with Czechoslovakian Patriot Masaryk and music students in Rome; by a Swedish lady who tells it with the air of a motherly, experienced traveler sending news of the great world to the folks back home...
...even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate circuit...
...Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin...