Word: barnumism
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RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The 1967 edition, with Dale Evans and Roy Rogers in center ring...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
...happened, his employer operated a concert agency on the side, and it was not long before the child of the muses began musing on the music business. He took to it like Barnum to bun kum. Once he billed a sorry troupe of dancers as terpsichorean exponents of "Vice, Horrors and Ecstasy," then hurriedly had to schedule extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among his clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a young redheaded violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian modern dancers, one of whose members, a slim, dark-eyed blonde named Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, later shortened...
...there is an elephant production number entitled "This Is New -Pussycat," and 50 sumptuously undercostumed ballerinas go through the Radio City Music Hall bit (step, two, three, whirl, kick) to the tune of What's New, Pussycat? But otherwise the circus seems happily unaltered from the days when Barnum was fleecing one a minute...
...distorted impression of continuing legal education. Dean Shapiro's organization is one of 35 in 30 states, all sponsoring courses on which many of the nation's lawyers rely. Those of us who know Shapiro well know a man who is not so much a P. T. Barnum as a dedicated, considerate, high-principled lawyer...