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Lancaster, now 42, who was an acrobat for five years (for the Kay Brothers Circus, nightclub shows and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus), then bounced through two tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers (The Crimson Pirate, The Flame and the Arrow). He tried directing (The Kentuckian) with indifferent success, plans in future to concentrate on producing, act occasionally. He has great respect for Hecht, "an enormously well-read and literate man, a bright, shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Branch | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...folding all over the U.S. (TIME, May 28), and the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze may soon pass into history with the flagpole sitter and the Human Fly. Trapeze is an attempt by Producer-Actor Burt Lancaster-who got his start in show business as an acrobat-to give the sons of the leotard what may prove to be their last fling in the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...sitting one day, Renoir went to her room. Finding her drawing a self-portrait in pastels, Renoir exclaimed in astonishment: "You, too?" Lautrec also praised her work, saw to it that she met the great, testy French master, Edgar Degas, who had seen her as an acrobat at Place Pigalle's Molier Circus before a bad fall finished her brief career. Degas in turn was delighted. Said he: "You are one of us." Recalled Suzanne, years later: "That day I had wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maria of Montmartre | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hangdog clown of the Ringling Bros. Circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth), and Elveria Gebhardt. 22, onetime circus acrobat: their first child (his third), a girl; in Sarasota, Fla. Name: Stacia. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Border Incident. In Brennero, Italy, stopped by Austrian immigration men because he had no credentials, Acrobat Leopold Stovcek was finally allowed to go through after other performers with the Togni circus troupe confirmed his explanation to frontier guards: "I had a passport, but our elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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