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...Devil's Circus. What happens when a little girl is seduced by a lion tamer is here discussed. The circus queen loved the lion tamer and stirred up a horrid row. Norma Shearer, the girl, manages to make an average film fair entertainment...
...Angeles, Trainer Louis Roth cracked his whip over a tigress making her circus debut, was flattened on the tanbark by a snarling catapult. Nimble, he regained his feet and with face, head, arms, shoulders spurting blood, lashed the cat into submission...
...shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
Spring really comes to Manhattan with the yearly drums of Ringling's circus. But its premonitory word, its first delicious promise of impending carnival, is the opening of the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists...
...through art school as a waiter and porter, and as Julia Kelly, who came untutored to the exhibition ten years ago and has recently got into the Luxembourg-leavened the works of their fantastic fellow members. New Yorkers came and stared-and went away to wait for the circus...