Word: circusing
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...Goadby Loew, daughter of Capitalist George Fisher Baker: "Together with Delanos, Burdens, Mackays, Wideners, Waterburys, Cromwells and many another Manhattan society family, my husband and I last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths -'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater...
...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come to the Peabody Museum. Last week the Museum announced...
...Ballyhoo. A maudlin play stutters about the love of Starlight Lil, circus-rider, for an irreproachable young man. She considers herself unworthy. To free the boy from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover...
...bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...