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Crew T--C. W. Dreyfus '31, stroke; E. W. Robinson '32, 7; J. M. Barnum '30, 6; Rockwell Kent '32, 5; F. G. Shaw '31, 4; R. M. Kellogg '32, 3; A. F. Borts '32, 2; bow, Dudley Davis...
...rebelled at this class distinction, officers and men together were moved to Immigrant Home, a Methodist Mission. Experienced Episcopal Archdeacon Dennen took over the management of Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum's embalmed whale and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Boston reporters, vaguely aware of the importance of this Soviet-U. S. ship transfer, hurried down to peer at 60 genuine Russian communists. Those who expected to find bearded Moujiks in Russian blouses and felt boots were thoroughly disappointed...
...There were six circuses in the merger: Ring-line; Bros.-Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks, Al G. Barnes (TIME, Sept...
Park--"The Last Performance" and "Barnum Was Right...
...soon moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn. There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter...