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Loew's State "The Devil's Circus," with Norma Shearer...
President Lincoln. Smooth and sleek-faced as a well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from...
...Delaware folk there was also a circus element in the death penalty. Cheerfully, the crowd selected vantage spots from which to witness the proceedings. Something of the sub-conscious hope that the trapeze acrobat will fall must have drawn men to the hanging, for the death of the platform performer was in this case a certainty...
...such, in a paid newspaper advertisement as blatant as any circus poster, last week spoke one Thomas J. Noonan, superintendent of the Rescue Society, holding a nightly mission in the Old Chinese Theatre on Doyers St., located amidst their haunts. "Evangelistic, enthusiastic, extraordinary," ballyhooed the ad with circus alliteration. "Drunkards, drug addicts, the homeless and friendless especially invited...
Nearly as noisy yet more circus-like was the "Parade of Warning," advertised similarly by "The Famous Welsh Evangelists, Clark and Bell." The "parade" was to start from the Gospel Tabernacle at 44th St. and 8th Ave., and in circus similitude proceed therefrom "to 34th St.; thence to 59th St. via 7th Ave. and Broadway, returning to 44th St. by 8th Ave. Bring your autos or come on foot...