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...borrowed Picasso's pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese Juggler (see cut) were the hit of the show, as they were...
...grown and married, he got his wish. He made several tours with Ringling Bros., one with his wife and the late cartoonist Clare Briggs. (Even now, when the circus comes to Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant (on the occasion of Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund Drive...
Some 50 Harlem Negro boys & girls spent two weeks in New Hampshire last summer, living with the white children, fishing, camping and learning to ride bareback on farm horses. Now eight sunburned New Hampshire kids were returning the call...
...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...only good thing about "Take It Big" is the sight of some of the best wild steers ever to invade a rodeo. But if you're not interested in bareback riding, steer milking and the like, arrange to come in when the main feature...