Word: barnumism
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...Morgan 2G., who will play his accustomed feminine role, the blase collegienne. L. W. Grossman '26, one of the general managers of the show, will play the comedian in the character of Nooky, Cecil's dumb reporter husband. The romance of the play will be furnished by Dwight Barnum '27 and R. H. Booth '27, as Forsythia and EdWard respectively...
...cast has been announced as follows: Cecil C. H. Morgan 2G. Nooky L. W. Grossman '26 Ed Ward R. H. Booth '27 Forsythia Dwight Barnum '27 Mrs. Smith J. P. Crosby '28 The Artist R. S. Wright '26 Harvey Dooty E. W. Martin '26 Nutting M. H. Clifford...
...subjected practically every other Sunday to a moral fight-talk by Dean Charles R. Brown of the Divinity School, who once in a moment of ventriloquistic inspiration impersonated the Savior and has since been known as the 'Ecclesiastical Barnum...
...marble table, you know. Well, one time Mr. Day said he couldn't sell me any more rubber casings. Said he'd made a contract with Waterman. I put all my machinery on a boat and sailed it down to Baltimore. . . I advertised on P. T. Barnum's first circus program. . . When they put up the Flatiron building, they flashed 'The Lancaster Pen' against it with a stereopticon machine. Once I printed a Sunday paper to give away. . . My wife and I traveled all over; I introduced her to Mrs. Potter Palmer out in Chicago...
...Suedia, (on the seacoast due west of Aleppo) and the raking of Druse villages by French 75's, Correspondent Seldes added specific details. He spoke of "pagan tribesmen riding horses like mountain goats" and of "a Druse gendarme who welcomes Americans because he had relatives who rode in Barnum's circus." Beside a Greek ikon in a native stone hut, he found "a faded lithograph of Lillian Russell† in tights...