Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Maurice R. Werner, newspaper reporter of Greenwich Vil- lage, Manhattan, came to fame in 1923 as the biographer of P. T. Barnum, circus man (who once offered Brigham Young $200,000 a year to exhibit himself in a sideshow). Hearing his work applauded, Mr. Werner dropped reporting, is now at work on a life...
...firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow" steps in to fix things up, which he does for everyone, including himself. The scene in which he haltingly proposes marriage--"an absurd suggestion, I know"--to the older daughter, "Rude Min" of the chorus, is in itself, as the sideshow barkers put it, worth the price of admission...
Merton of the Movies. Lacking the smouldering satire of the book, deprived of the caustic cleverness of the play, slightly distorted as to plot, the camera version of Merton Gill still reveals him as one of the strong men in the cinema sideshow. Probably the heart of the story is too vigorous to skip a beat just because certain outward features are differently applied. Merton has now been played in all the available roles, differently each time and each time with enviable effect...
...Sideshow of Life. If cinema-wrights had not so low an opinion of the vocabularies of moviegoers, they might have called this picture The Mountebank after W. J. Locke's story which it dramatized. Ernest Torrence, as the Mountebank, plays all the chords of Locke's sentimentalism as clown and brigadier general in worthy re-creation of the intinerant romance...