Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other agents and agencies in the search for Col. Lindbergh's kidnapped child seemed no closer to success than they were on the windy night of March 1, when the baby was snatched from his New Jersey nursery. But in Washington last week another fantastic sideshow in the case was revealed. Principal in this show was a bad actor who first came to fame in the Harding era - Gaston Bullock Means...
...specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed and it doubtless contains more misfits of humanity than were ever gathered together in the combined shows of Ringling Brothers and Barnum...
...lively sideshow in U. S. education is Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. Its barker: President Hamilton Holt. Famed freak: a course in Evil, taught by Professor of Evil Corra May Harris (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). To the faculty of Rollins, reported Field & Stream last week, is soon to be added a Professor of Hunting & Fishing, who will teach the students "how to take the greatest possible pleasure from the wild ... to know the peace and beauty of woods and lakes where the game is abundant, to appreciate the dull loneliness of burned forests where all life has been killed...
...increased from ?20,000 to between ?2,000,000 and ?3,000,000." In the Belgian Congo Dr. Arthur Torranee, Los Angeles wanderer, is now seeking a tribe of black hermaphrodites. Near Lake Chad Herbert Edwin Bradley and Harry Augustus Bigelow, Chicago lawyers, are trying to accumulate a sideshow for Chicago's 1933 Exposition-a village of pygmies. (Next week TIME will report the progress of other expeditions, coming & going...
...Naval Affairs Com mittee. A Big-Navy man, Senator Hale called his committee together to make an independent inquiry into its effects upon the Navy. The Hale hearings have no official standing, are for the patent pur pose of drumming up treaty opposition, if any, by staging a publicity sideshow. As Witness No. 1, Senator Hale summoned Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, a London delegate, to explain and elucidate. Later would be called Admirals William Veazie Pratt and Hilary P. Jones, naval advisors to the U. S. delegation, to see if they would say critical things about...