Word: barnumism
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Last week the barkers were having a picnic. It was as if Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like...
Harry Truman once complained that it is easier to move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...
Except for the Great Unus, along with the Great Lamberti and the Great Alzanas, this year's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus has little out of the ordinary to offer, which is not a particularly damning criticism if you happen to be entertained by polar bears, clowns, horses, acrobats, dancing girls, lions, aerialists, or unicycle riders. These standard items have been produced with aplomb, magnificence, smoothness, showmanship, and noisy music, leaving little to be nostalgically longed after by circus devotees except possibly the Wallendas, who used to ride bicycles across high wires...
...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
...Circus (Sun. 2:15 p.m., CBS Television). Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey's big show, from Madison Square Garden...