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...Warner Bros., RKO, Paramount, Metro-Golchvyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal, Columbia...
Competition from the new Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus (TIME, March 29) has caused the Big Show-the one & only Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus-to bestir itself to present this year a spectacle more exciting than ever. Young Si old who marched into Madison Square Garden last week to see the season's premiere emphatically agreed that the 1937 circus was truly, as advertised, bigger & better...
...This year the Wallendas, originators of the breathtaking moving human pyramid on the high wire, and their Ringling colleagues, the Grotofents, have felt the pressure of competition from the Cole Bros.-Beatty team of the Gretonas. One of the Gretonas goes out on the wire and, holding precariously onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...
...week Mr. Hadley's task was to find out what old Mr. Ball had been up to of late. Mr. Ball had been in Washington getting acquainted with RFC Chairman Jesse Holman Jones. He had been in Cleveland. He had been in Manhattan. But his secretary at Ball Bros. Co. on Muncie's Macedonia Avenue soon scotched the idea that Mr. Ball was selling his 90% equity in Midamerica Corp. That Mr. Ball had received propositions was certain. Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen ("The Great") Eaton for one had been trying to recruit a buying syndicate...
...With the 29th and last "display," the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus stepped up into another class altogether A rising curtain disclosed a steel cage, 32 ft. in diameter, with a web of netting guarding the top. The lights were lowered a sound like thunder rumbled and syn thetic lightning glimmered. A big, heavy maned lion loped from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were...