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...that explained the din. Young Barnum was merely listening, as a child, to a circus band. The general naivete of the first movement, the Connecticut hymnology, all suggested the Yankee scene amid which Phineas T. Barnum wriggled his toes in the dirt...
...essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community. But the ballyhoo beckons to the boy, also. He joins the circus one vacation, soon develops an aversion for "all them colleges" of his father's dreams and hopes, marries the snake-charmer, a maid of 20 summers, whose age "if ye go by experience is 120." Brokenhearted, disappointed by his son's "ingratitude," "Nifty" is on the point of deserting...
...between them; the queen stands sternly pointing to it, the heroine collapses and is partially supported by the comedian, the prince stands, hands clenched in awful agony. Thus the tableau remains motionless through three or four curtains. It was like the living statues one used to see at the circus. One always wonders what would happen if one of the statues had to sneeze or actually did get the proverbial hiccoughs...
...West 42nd St.--If this is not exactly a good play it has attained the position of being one of New York's things-to-be-seen, and after the show you can go across the street to Huber's museum and see another equally interesting sight: the flea circus. Both are uproarious...
...will tell you he was born on the Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...