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This quiet New Englander of middle age, whom one sees at the circus with his two boys, has written, by and large, over 100 plays. Many of them have been melodramatic thrillers in which the actors tore the scenery and heroes flung themselves valiantly before hissing villains. Mr Davis has now chosen to become a realist. Two seasons ago he wrote a grim drama called The Detour and was canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along...
Died. Alfred Miaco, 77, for 66 years a circus performer, in Manhattan. He was chief clown with the Ringling circus for 25 years...
Some of the people who attended the Firpo-Willard fight: two Governors, Silzer (N. J.) and Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...
...author of these " amazingly intimate revelations of the loves, feuds, intrigues, pranks, and personalities of Society's ' circus,' " is Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul-General at Brussels, and wife of James Vail Converse...
Contracts have been signed for the construction of the world's greatest indoor arena just above the Manhattan theatre district (at 51st St. and Seventh Ave.). John Ringling, circus man; Tex Rickard, greatest of athletic promoters; E. F. Albee, czar of vaudeville, are behind the project. The building will include at least two theatres beside the arena, and will seat untold thousands. In the summertime the tan l ark will evolve into a swimming pool than which " only the ocean is larger." The announcement spells death to historic Madison Square Garden, for years home of circus, bike race, title bout...