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...Barnum & Bailey troupe had acquired something besides $325,000 worth of new costumes. It had acquired a new top boss-Robert Ringling, who after a rumored family wrangle succeeded his cousin John Ringling North-and a new attitude. Gone were the Stravinsky ballet music, the Balanchine choreography, the blue tanbark and all the rest of the modernistic decor which had raised complaints and possibly cut the profits. Once again everything was traditional, absurd and gaudy as a gypsy's jewels...
...music was by Stravinsky, the choregraphy by Balanchine, the costumes by Norman Bel Geddes. But New Yorkers weren't swooning over a new ballet; they were in Madison Square Garden watching 50 elephants in pink panties cavort at The Circus. They were gaping at bright blue and red tanbark, girl rope climbers who looked like Ziegfeld chorines, wedding-cake beautifications, Peter Arno drawings in the programs, refreshments passed on china platters. If they were old or sentimental enough, they were wondering what had become of the pink lemonade, the gold-toothed lady bareback rider, the gaudy, dirty, bewildering oldtime...
Instead the arena was transformed into a nursery lotus land. Even the tanbark had changed color, to a bright blue. Over it, one after another, rolled glorious floats and glittering equipages of white and gold, bearing hundreds of characters from Mother Goose. Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon...
...tanks, scout cars and motorcycles rumbled over the tanbark in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. Except for this "Preparedness Spectacle" staged by U. S. Army men, the 1940 National Horse Show was pretty much like its 54 predecessors. The scarlet-coated ringmaster tootled his horn. High-stepping saddle horses went through their prancing paces; harness horses pulled elegant buggies and swelegant owners; hunters and jumpers skimmed over the bars...
...spots, reserve good stories for the big papers. With a flop, veterans like Maney don't try pleading or high-pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...