Word: acrobat
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...previous histrionic efforts Joe has been successively, a high jumper, five day bike rider, clown, prize fighter, acrobat, and tractor operator. Now, assisted by Carol Hughes, he overcomes his fear of horses the bold way. In short the usual Brown formula is followed. A timid soul, he pretends to great prowess on the ponies, and what you imagine would happen does, and in a big way. This is among Joe Brown's funnier pictures, and the supporting cast, headed by the redoubtable Skeets Gallagher and the aforesaid Miss Hughes, who is attractive, in a hard, metallic way, bet still...
...Author. Ben Hecht, "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," is that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with...
...more shrewd technique in Artist Hoyer's paintings than appeared at first glance. Pittsburgh's Kane got much attention from the Press because he had once been a housepainter. Chicago's Hoyer was the first able painter that anyone could remember who had been a professional acrobat. No tank-town curtain-raiser, he had played Big Time vaudeville for 24 years, was headlined from Copenhagen to Australia. Elderly booking agents still recall him as the only member of the Yoskary Brothers who was not a Yoskary...
...Torvald Hoyer's passion for painting that first made him an acrobat. Son of a well-known Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose...
...Kaya San, who lived next door to Grier in the hotel, first attracted his attentions. But when he found his progress imperceptible he went to see Chika. an acrobat who had traveled from Europe on his boat. Chika's villainous father wanted to sell her to Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake...