Word: aerialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...
...cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
...other two stories are more effective. The last tale, about an aerialist who dreams of falling and tempts fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...
...names (he calls Yogi Berra "Berry"), but he has an encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what may have been the happiest moment of his life...