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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...performance of Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring was attended, last week, by T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York. Hitherto no one of the King's sons has entered a theatre since the critical stage of his illness. Princess Mary has been to a benefit circus, laughed...
...Should Fascist Italy be transformed into a grand equestrian circus, with Fascists disguised as clowns, citizens as horses, and II Duce the ringmaster? No! Italy today is an incandescent workshop in which a new destiny is being forged for the construction, piece by piece, of her future, like a big, victorious cruiser...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died...
...hours later the "subscription audience" went home nauseated, well punished for their peeping-tommery. The piece had been all about an Englishman who morbidly followed a French circus for years, hoping to see the lion eat the trainer. By way of grisly climax the French trainer, vexed, flung the Englishman into the lion's cage, whereupon the stage was darkened and awful groans, snarls and tearing sounds betokened that the Englishman was being eaten...