Word: acrobats
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...deposed princeling (Guy Robertson) earns his living as a circus acrobat...
...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
...been retained to write a motion picture. He has again indicated that the one talent does not necessarily embrace the other. You Never Know Women is pale and thin. It tells of a Russian vaudeville troupe in the U. S.; how the man-about-town interfered with the lovely acrobat's love for the magician. Miss Vidor, Mr. Sherman and an originally resourceful director called William Wellman have saved much from the wreck...
...Delaware folk there was also a circus element in the death penalty. Cheerfully, the crowd selected vantage spots from which to witness the proceedings. Something of the sub-conscious hope that the trapeze acrobat will fall must have drawn men to the hanging, for the death of the platform performer was in this case a certainty...