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...gained a spy, the U.S. took in a husband-and-wife high-wire duo from the prestigious Moscow Circus. Bertalina Kazakova and Nikolai Nikolsky walked into the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week and are now in Miami, where they may soon be hearing from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus...
...Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus's arrival yesterday was marked by a procession of animals from their train to Boston Garden. There, the "greatest show on earth"--now in its 125th consecutive year--will go on from October 16 to October...
Kozloff: on Lisette Model, Tufts' Barnum Hall, Room...
DIED. John Ringling North, 81, flamboyant, fast-talking showman who from 1937 to '43 and from 1947 to '67 ran "The Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, started by his five uncles in 1884; of a stroke; in Brussels. North took over the debt-spangled show after the death of his last uncle, John Ringling, and modernized it with such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the "vehemently vicious" 550-lb. gorilla that drew more than 40 million circusgoers. In 1956, North folded the big top and reincarnated the show for new arenas...
...first appeared on Broadway in 1968, and its lead roles have been a recurrent draw to major actors ever since. For Jim Dale, a manic clown who won a Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully...