Word: barnumism
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...Dido and Aeneas." This work, based on the "Aeneid," a work which all the undergraduates had to know cold in those days, included both original and borrowed music and went as far afield as Philadelphia. In 1918, the first show on the modern, grand scale was produced--"Barnum Was Right." The author was Robert E. Sherwood...
George W. Smith could tell most war producers a thing or two about a business man's problems in wartime. As general manager of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, he has to feed, house, trans port, costume and otherwise provide for "the greatest show on earth" - without benefit of any priorities whatsoever. But last week as the Big Show boomed into its second jampacked week at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (prospective gross for the 36-day run: almost $2,000,000), George Smith was calm & collected in the midst of his bedlam. He knows that...
Manhattanites opened their windows and their hearts again last week: spring had come and with it the circus. Since last year the great Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey troupe had acquired something besides $325,000 worth of new costumes. It had acquired a new top boss-Robert Ringling, who after a rumored family wrangle succeeded his cousin John Ringling North-and a new attitude. Gone were the Stravinsky ballet music, the Balanchine choreography, the blue tanbark and all the rest of the modernistic decor which had raised complaints and possibly cut the profits. Once again everything was traditional, absurd...
...coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...1870s P. T. Barnum picked up one Georgius Constantine, a Greek from Albania, not one quarter inch of whose body was clear of designs. Claiming that he had been covered from...