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...press agents urged the girls to "scream now" and paid the lucky ones 25 dollars to faint on cue. When the Beatles finally arrived at the Plaza, the crowd charged and nearly killed the chauffeur and two doormen. The PR men sighed with relief. Through a mixture of circus press-agentry and true love, the Beatles were already, on their first day in America, becoming more popular than Jesus...
Under the Big Top. Circus Master John Ringling never could resist a painting big enough to display under a big top, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has contributed a swashbuckling, 7½-ft Veronese. Dime Store King Samuel Kress left one collection of Italian paintings to the National Gallery-and a second to 18 different museums around the U.S., three of whom sent contributions to the CRIA exhibit. While most works acquired by collectors have by now come to rest in museums, some at the Wildenstein still reside in private homes. A charming...
Aside from a few tame youth cafes and sedate "Western-style" ballrooms from out of the 1930s or so, there is nothing resembling a nightclub in Moscow or elsewhere in the U.S.S.R. More interesting places to go in the evening: the Moscow Circus (bike-riding bears, acrobats on horseback) and the Bolshoi Ballet (6:30 p.m. sharp...
...list social-climbing publicity and sports flackery alongside corporate public relations under "public relations" is tantamount to lumping a circus seal with Sir John Gielgud as "entertainers...
...midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...