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Business & Pleasure. The China-born Shaw Brothers have only one thing in common: a desire to make movies and money. Run Me Shaw, short and stubby, handles finances, avoids the limelight. Run Run Shaw, tall and thin, is a mixture of Barnum & Bailey and Todd-AO. He willfully holds conferences at 2 a.m., buys and sells talent like cattle. He is the master of the Asian hard sell. When The Brothers Karamazov, starring bald Yul Brynner, played the Shaw circuit, Run Run organized a head-shaving contest with a prize for the shiniest pate, started a teen-age craze...
Thrills of the 1960 Circus (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey...
Presley depends completely on Parker, never talks to the press unless the Colonel nods, is content to look after the hips while the man he calls Admiral looks after the Presley legend. Meanwhile, a legend is growing around Parker himself that might very well reduce P. T. Barnum to the size of Tom Thumb...
...market, Reynolds decided to bring out Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back...
Died. Felix Adler, 62, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown who kept U.S. children laughing for 50 years as he waddled about with his bulbous, red-lighted nose, played the Big Bad Wolf while pigs he trained danced on their hind legs around him; after surgery; in Manhattan...