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...such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation difficulties. But the elephants, the trapezists, the trick riding, the clowns are hardy perennials. Of the professional clowns Fellows remembers, one filled in the winters at osteopathy, one was a patent lawyer. Everywhere the circus goes, says Fellows, local bankers, merchants, doctors want to act as a clown for one show. "To accommodate them we keep several extra costumes on hand...
Some publicity stunts that Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating...
Many a vengeful Boer looked on the outbreak of the World War as a good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found...
Last week they promised us a hodge-podge; that's what we got. There is a "Jumbo" clown, however, with surprisingly capacious clothes...
...Your Toes devotes its first act to kidding a Russian ballet. Ballet dancers' Broadway reputation for arrogance, jealousy and venery offers, like a clown's buttocks, a large and ludicrous target for whacking. Three modern masters of whacking, George Abbott (who staged this season's side-splitting Boy Meets Girl) and Rodgers & Hart (who supplied Jumbo's score) have done so with authority. The finale of On Your Toes' Act I, in which disaster strolls implacably through a conventional ballet, will make it impossible for many people ever again to take the serious Dance seriously...