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...must to all men, death came last week to Krao Farini, "the missing link," who had a long black beard and monkey hands. She died of influenza in Manhattan (where she was with Ringlings' circus...
...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...
Jungle Joe now joins their company, a youthful elephant captured with 55 of his elders and betters in a drive on the Malay Peninsula. He is brought over the oceans to Madison Square Garden; shipped across the continent with a big circus to winter quarters in Hollywood, and then back again to grace the zoo of a small New England city...
...Mussolini's hand and the spades of the Fascist faithful, Rome offers new attractions in the restoration of the old and imposition of the new. The Appian way is to be restored at the sacrifice of some ugly modernity now surrounding it. Excavation is expected to reveal the Circus Maximus and the Forum Olitorium. Construction is planned to raise among them a new Academy of Fine Arts. This represents a Fascist extravagance of ninety million lire...
...Berlin, in the Circus Busch, one Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...