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...watched a robin attack a windowpane for over a period of two months. His efforts so exhausted him that he would lie on the ground for hours without moving and his beak was bloody from continually striking it against the pane. We tried pulling the shade clown and soaping the window to no effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half...
Last April John Ringling had given him the run of his "Greatest Show on Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before...
...lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever told 1. That the show must go on 2. Laugh, you clown, though your heart is breaking 3. I guess you got me, kid, but good luck and God bless you (coughs gently, dies)? It just seems that no motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that...
...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...