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Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
...succeed because they are more than ballyhoo. Rose is compared interminably with Barnum, but unlike Barnum he does not play the public for a sucker; he gives his customers their money's worth. The World's Fair Aquacade, as Rose said, "spelled the death of the 25? peep show by giving good entertainment for 15? more." And Rose is never afraid of splurging. He casts whole bakeries upon the waters, knowing that the more bread there is, the more dough it contains...
...that would peep and botanize...
...Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
...Verdun in World War I. Ernie's mother keeps a secondhand furniture store, lends money and receives stolen goods on the side. Ernie is apprentice to a lithographer, is fired for laziness and ineptitude, becomes a hanger-out at the Fun Fair, a penny arcade replete with peep shows, pinball games, shooting gallery and a change girl named Ada -"a proper, right, straight up smasher of a bride" with yellow hair, red fingernails and a close-fitting sweater...