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...probably been told before of the tight-rope walker who displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average...
Author Williamson, only 32, has already been hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newspaper reporter, wrestling instructor, prison official (finger prints), social worker, Harvard M. A., professor, translator, research ethnologist and author of a first novel (Run Sheep Run) that was universally hailed as "impressive, fascinating, vigorous, sinister, virile, etc., etc." He was born of mixed Welsh†, French, Irish and Norwegian stock on an Indian reservation. The collection of novels he intends to write he calls "The American Panorama...
...exhibit* of paintings would consist of work by artists invited to contribute anything they chose and not, as always heretofore, of canvases selected by a jury. The one big international exhibit in the U. S., in other words, was to be almost as free and spontaneous as the annual circus of the independent U. S. artists...
...same day the President received a delegation from a new organization, with 55 members from 38 states: The Circus Men's Association of America. The President told them that he once walked 15 miles to see a circus...
...wanted money for a clubhouse, and busy Misses Anne Morgan and Miriam K. Oliver had arranged the shadow races as part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators...