Word: circusing
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Peace brought only boredom to the Mad Major's sort, and as he aged, he drifted to bit playing on the London stage, stunt flying in an aerial circus. He even peddled hacksaw blades at an Ideal Homes Exhibition...
WINDING up a five-week stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus was off for Boston on the first lap of its annual 10,000-mile tour. As always, the "Greatest Show on Earth" was jammed with enough clowns, animals and death-defying aerialists to bewilder the most attentive youngster in the audience. And, as always, the whole show sparkled with a brand-new spring outfit of costumes, scenery and floats. The man who dresses the circus anew each year, "from the sawdust up" (moss-green this year), is a mild...
...other two stories are more effective. The last tale, about an aerialist who dreams of falling and tempts fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...
...Baptist, a Prohibitionist, a politician and a lover of horses. As a skinny kid, Oveta became Ike's undisguised favorite, absorbed his love of horses and politics. On summer evenings, Ike Culp liked to stand among his horses and, cracking a whip, make them gallop around him in circus-ring precision. The lesson was not lost on Oveta...
Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering circus wagons. At this point, the picture takes on a movingly nightmarish quality...