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Basket Maker flappers had bobbed hair, but they seem to have preserved their shown tresses because plenty of hair has been found in mummified baskets. Moreover, they made some use of it, weaving it into rope. The women did most of the basket making for which the tribe is famous. There was no clay pottery among them and they seem to have employed baskets for every conceivable domestic purpose...
...tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props. He fell in love with the circus proprietor's daughter, attempted to fake a tight-rope act, got nibbled by monkeys, ran away, helped the circus proprietor's daughter to marry a competent tight-rope walker. Then the little tramp, gay and forlorn, walked away down a road until he was out of sight...
Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...
...mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both of them. The melodrama of the story would make it seem strained in any setting; but such is the splendor of the background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms...
...larger cities, the old man with the rope has been replaced by a rude whippersnapper in striped pants & buttons. In certain office buildings, he lounges against a lever, hurtling the passengers toward the floor which they desire to reach...