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...resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened his "bum of the month," hockey players scuffled, the circus came indoors, 2,500 pedigreed dogs paraded each year for the Westminster Dog Show, and Billy Graham made mass conversions. Last week the Garden prepared to move again. Its current owner, the Graham-Paige Corp.,† announced plans for a new $75 million Garden complex atop Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
Harry Gumm Sr. (circus clown), K6MDD
Jane Quigley, every bit as versatile as Mr. Barstow, is a quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...
After Cody folded, Hamid drifted among U.S. circuses until he had one of his own, called "Hamid's Oriental Circus, Wild West, and Far East Shows Combined." By 1931 he was running the North Carolina state fair, but when a gubernatorial candidate complained that Hamid was making more money than North Carolina, Hamid moved on huffily to New Jersey, whose state fair he still runs...
Lambertville, N. J., Music Circus: Alan Mowbray in Tenderloin...