Word: circusing
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...serious question for the churches that endorse them. These films offer valuable publicity and good will benefits, but it is quite possible to both popularize something and empty it of meaning at the same time. Hollywood mixtures of the Sacred and the Super-Colossal often blend into a garish circus atmosphere with sacrelegious overtones...
...gave photographers a chance to catch him in a traditionally morose pose before leaving on the United States for a European business trip. Two pieces of business: the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (see above), in which Keaton appears; a three-week stint with a Paris circus...
Watching for the coining of a united Europe is like watching for the elephants in a circus parade. First come the outriders, colored floats, steam calliopes and drum majors, tossing their batons. With each new sight, the kids shout "Here they come!" But still no elephants...
Bouncily directed by Robert Siodmak, and photographed in Technicolor against real Italian settings. The Crimson Pirate turns out to be great fun. Lancaster, a onetime circus acrobat, bounds from balconies and cliffs, fights his enemies with fists, swords and belaying pins, swims under water, and swings from the ship's rigging with the greatest of ease. All in all, he makes a good claim to being the successor to Douglas Fairbanks as the screen's most athletic swashbuckler...
...London last week, at an exhibition of French primitives, Bombois' pictures were getting most of the attention. He had sent a portrait, robust circus scenes, romantic riverscapes. His most talked-about painting was Utrillo Kissing His Prayer Book, which shows the famed painter in a white coat, clutching a black prayer book as he faces a wooden crucifix; in the background is a black, star-speckled sky. Most British critics had pleasant things to say about burly old (69) Bombois and his innocent simplicity. Art News & Review. "Bombois is the hero of this exhibition . . . [Utrillo] is an extraordinary piece...