Word: barnumism
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...Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, and who will preach in the Chapel on November 26. And we were reminded of the fine legends with which Mr. Lucius Beebe was accustomed to clothe the Rev. Mr. Brown. According to this saga, Mr. Brown was an "Ecclesiastical Barnum," who brightened his heyday by acquiring a considerable skill in ventriloquism. It appears that it is never difficult for a preacher to evoke attention from his audience by calling out upon the heavens and its inmates. But, if Mr. Lucius Beebe is to be credited, The Rev. Mr. Brown used not only...
...this last bright brown-&-blue-grey picture they saw themselves as they had looked twelve years before, trooping into famed Castle Garden, rowing out to the late Phineas Taylor Barnum's famed Chinese junk Keying which Barnum had built in Hoboken, claimed he had had towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...
...cities, whereby musicians are kept busy from one formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter. Only disturbance the opening week was made by a peahen named Madame Blanche who emitted a shrill...
Alfredo Codona, aerialist supreme in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus, slipped into a bathrobe, hoped he would find his brother's hands waiting to catch him when he spun dizzily out of his triple somersault from the sweeping end of a flying trapeze 60 ft. above the centre ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He usually manages to find them, misses every two or three months. The Codona Brothers* have been holding hands for over 20 years, have been grabbing at each other after Alfredo's triple somersault several times a week since...
...loud, self-advertising mufti, he strides through the dressing-rooms of his troupers, confident that, one & all, they are the finest performers ever assembled, worthy of every conceivable hyperbole. He is, of course, quite right. Undiscouraged by salary cuts, suspensions and failures of other circuses. Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's is still the world's greatest show. And for each of its 24 displays Dexter Fellows has a resounding, polysyllabic jawbreaker of commendation. With his famed adherence to literal truth, he makes some concessions: "I admit we have no gorilla. I will go further...