Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote volunteered to replace Dancer Nevell. The act was renamed "Bride of the Lion...
...afternoon last week the Circus de Paris was playing in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. "Bride of the Lion" went off as scheduled and the curtain fell. Suddenly from the stage came screams, roars, shots. A juggler rushed out, distracted the audience by beginning his act in front of the curtain. Behind it, Dr. Hamiter was tugging a lion named George off prostrate Gladys Cote. Her lacerations were not fatal, but bacteria under the lion's claws were. Gangrene developed and in three days Bride Cote was dead...
Artist Dali who wears a knitted Catalan liberty cap whenever possible, takes surrealism in dead earnest, but has a faculty for publicity which should turn any circus pressagent green with envy. On his first arrival in the U. S. he solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
Stanford's stocky Tony Calvelli may have thrown them just as straight but California's Vic Bottari had better receivers. Henry Sparks started things in the second quarter with a one-hand circus grab on the goal line and after that his teammates snaggled every pass they saw, not caring which Italian boy was throwing them. To California: 20 points, the Pacific Coast's traditional Big Game, plus a special trophy, the famed Stanford Ax. To Stanford...