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...Coolidge included: 1) attendance at the marriage of Miss Mary Wallace (Agriculture) to Dr. Charles Bruggmann, 2) a visit to the Army-Navy League Ball in the sail loft of the Navy Yard, 3) a visit under the friendly protection of John Ringling to the circus at which, according to reliable reports, Mr. Coolidge most enjoyed "bareback riding, trapeze performances and trained dog acts...
...Tennis Club, Larchmont, N. Y., William T. Tilden, II, tennis champion, engaged in a "circus" match, "did wizard tricks with his racquet and ball...
...circus" came to town when "Bad Bill," playing double courts, took on Throckmorton and Voshell, also playing double courts. He beat them in a one-set match...
...never finished. Four acts were sketched out, but not orchestrated. The instrumentation was done by Tom-masini. The spectacles, upon which a whole school of painters, designers, costumers and stage managers have been engaged for more than a year, included the Appian Way, a temple, an orchard and the Circus Maximus of Imperial Rome. More than two million lire were spent on the preparations. The story, of course, ends with the devastating event of the burning of the city. All of which sounds like the text of an illustrated program of the latest D. W. Griffith cinema...
...Abolition of the ban on dancing, card playing, theatres, circus, but stressed the unmorality...