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Through Chicago streets into sheds in his South Side lumberyard Mr. Meitus proudly led a nervous procession of 9 monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: South Side Circus | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Just how a club-woman sounds was illustrated in a compelling soprano by another entertainer, while four pianists competed, two of them playing Chopin, another playing "Martha" in the "Tiger Hag" fashion, and another interpreting a piece which no one recognized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Entertainers Display Talents In Yearly Employment Bureau Trials | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...great football team since the days of Barry Wood went into the closing minutes of the Princeton game trailing 14-7. All afternoon it had stubbornly battled the fast. Crislor machine on almost even terms. With but a couple of minutes to play Harvard had the ball just inside Tiger territory, and the long pass was called...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Football's Fourth Season Under Reins of Head Coach Harlow Gets Under Way September 9 for Earliest Start Since War | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Just back of Britain's monster naval base at Singapore lies the pleasant realm of the wealthy, virile, tiger-hunting Sultan of Johore who, as an Oriental potentate, is entitled to have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: Mothers & Daughters | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...presumed to mean "fur and feathers." For authentic fur-&-feather footage, Cinemad-venturer Clyde Elliott (Bring 'Em Back Alive) toted his cameras to Northern Malaya. Paramount sheared away most of what he brought back, brushed up a Booloo of its own, a crude hocus-pocus about a white tiger, worshiped by Sakai tribesmen and kept in good fur on a diet of maidens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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