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...posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate son; a bully who suspects the two strangers; a slobbering sadist caressing a rope; and two men who are desperately in opposition to the expedition-a colored handy man and a gentle elderly storekeeper...
Materials. The 1943 circus economics are well in hand. Its foresighted buyers had a year's supply of canvas for the 77,000-yard big top and 40 smaller tents. They anticipated the loss of Manila by laying away 73 miles of rope-also a year's supply. The animal market is fine: the Big Show always has a backlog anyway. The clowns (who buy their own makeup) use hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings...
When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...
When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...
Thereafter, except for more fanfare in the way of a magnificently jumbled United Nations pageant, the show offered many thrills but no surprises. Its starred newcomer is fragile Lalage who, hanging by an arm to a rope, flapjacks herself an incredible number of times in the upper air. With a two-cycle, five-man act, the perennial Wallendas outdo their past achievements on the high wire. As of yore, The Flying Councellos leap, Elly Ardelty stands on her head on the flying trapeze, Massi-milliano Truzzi juggles flaming torches. Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop...