Word: circus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filmed his spectacular scenes with technical virtuosity and boundless gusto. Even lovers of cinematic art who recognize Samson and Delilah as a run-of-DeMille epic should enjoy it as a simple-minded spree. In its way, it is as much fun as a robust, well-organized circus...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...
...courtroom scenes are enough to make a law student turn green with nausea. At one point Mrs. Bonner, in an attempt to prove that women are equal to men in every respect, brings in a circus woman who does back flips and lifts Mr. Bonner...
...circus' Gargantua, who resembles the gentleman pictured above. Gargantua died Friday and will be flown to the Elis' Peabody Museum after an autopsy...
...home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...