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Thomas J. Johnson, new Circus Czar: "I issued this statement to the public: 'I am going to make circuses safe, sane, reputable...
...that the circus in Washington is closed until next season, its habitual audiences will have to content themselves with reading and rereading the souvenir program. The Congressional Record is a curious, comprehensive collection of fact and fiction. Encyclopedic in character, it contains the Book of Knowledge, the Outlines of History and Science, the Bible, Shakspere, the dictionary, and the Sears-Roebuck catalogue. Though it is supposed to give, word for word, the speeches in both Houses, their speakers would hardly recognize them. Vituperative Congressmen who lose their tempers and sense of fitness of things while on their feet, and ignorant...
...Armistice undergraduates turned themselves into street hawkers and sold Poppies in aid of Earl Haig's "Fund for Disabled Soldiers". Over 600 pounds were collected, which is a record in Cambridge for a one day collection. Part of the scheme for attracting money consisted of a mock circus consisting of undergraduates dressed up in the skins of animals who paraded the town making appropriate noises. The evening was much quieter than usual and very few bonfires were lighted where they ought not to have been...
...fall circus on Soldiers Field has presented this year a series of performances that would be a credit to Barnum and Bailey. The program was opened by some tumbling followed by an exciting wrestling match. Then with a blare of trumpets came the pageantry of the "Praying Colonels" and after them the war dance of the Lost Tribe re-discovered. Up from the south came the Alligators, hardly disposed of when the Tiger sprang into the arena, dieted on raw beef so long that all efforts to tame him were unsuccessful...
...ante-room of a large Russian circus, seeped in the lore of the tanbark-ring, the play moves in a little world of its own, diverse enough and complete unto itself. Into this realm of play-people, with their human loves, rivalries, and eccentricities, there steps one from "out there", from the little known external world. He is a mysterious figure, something of a philosopher, and a keen observer. All he asks is a part to play, a life to live in this special world, and the right that his out world self be allowed to die. The part...