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...thwarted observers in many places, but not in Giggleswick, England (pop. 950), whither gathered 70,000 and Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know...
...Unknown (Lon Chaney). Although his penchant for weird roles has occasioned many a jest,* audiences are beginning to realize that Lon Chaney stands on a pedestal of Hollywood, the one actor dedicated to the serious grotesque. His most recent incarnation is Alonzo, armless wonder of a traveling circus. In reality a full-bodied man, Alonzo straps himself into deformity in order to conceal from a hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands...
...SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out of the events he witnessed and gives the author a chance thus, to portray a character with unusual completeness...
...Scribner ($2). With the edge of his desire for adventurous living dulled by environment, Branch Diversey found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that...
...circus! When Lindbergh has crossed the bar in the Spirit of St. Louis and there are no more rivers to cross; when Coolidge and Rodgers play at Waldron's and an oyster is good for a hit in the ninth, then and then alone, and so forth. There are those, ladies and gentlemen, who prefer the bull fight; there are those who prefer the cock fight; and "Ghost Train" still draws crowds; but, and here may I quote Hamilton Jefferson Detroit Plymouth who said, "If a circus have but a single ring, that ring rings true...