Word: barnumism
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Comedie Francaise?There is a well-defined suspicion, unverified by actual announcement, that Morris Gest, modern Barnum, has persuaded this most famous theatrical organization in the world to come to Manhattan for a brief season...
...weeks ago Duchess, an elephant presented by the late Mr. P. T. Barnum to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, died of what newspapers reported to be an inflammation of the bowels caused by eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went...
...could do to help in reforming the lunacy laws he would be happy to do, did not mind being called by the audience if it helped. "Lord Kitchener" said he regretted that the lunacy situation was as bad in Great Britain as in the U. S. "P. T. Barnum" mournfully stated that "he had atoned in Paradise for all his little indiscretions and his formula 'The public likes to be fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment of her first experience in the spirit world, when she found herself before the great "Judge...
...Signed) P. T. BARNUM...
...Leviathan (U. S. Line)?Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Basso Adamo Didur, both of the Metropolitan Opera Company; A. H. Woods, "bedroom man;" Nora Bayes, famed actress; the Japanese Davis Cup Team?Messrs. Fukuda, Harada, Shimizu; Jesus Artegas ("P. T. Barnum of Cuba"), who is taking H. Ponce de Leon, welterweight pugilistic champion of Cuba, with him in hopes of matching him abroad; Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt (Gloria Morgan...