Word: barnumism
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...Toto (a she-gorilla) met Gargantua (a he-gorilla) last week. Their cautious introduction took place out behind the machine shop at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. The two giant gorillas whom John Ringling North hopes to mate (TIME, Dec. 30) were wheeled up face to face in their separate cages. Attendants and newsmen watched...
...preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook their heads in wonder. Was it inspiration or luck? Orson Welles might not be the Junius Brutus Booth of his generation, but some thought he had a jumbo streak of the old Barnum...
...least a few folds of the mantle of P. T. Barnum now flow over the tough shoulders of Showman Mike Todd who ran four of the biggest, most popular attractions at the recent New York World's Fair (Gay New Orleans, Streets of Paris, Dancing Campus, Old Time Op'ry House). Previous wearer of the whole mantle was Showman Billy Rose, but if Showman
...average bleacherite, Joe Engel is best known in another capacity, as the Barnum of Baseball. During the past ten years, ever since he was put in charge of the Senators' Chattanooga farm club, strange tales have floated up from the Tennessee hills. On opening day, Engel had his players parade into the ball park on elephants. He traded a shortstop for a turkey, roasted it and served it to local sportswriters who had been "giving him the bird." He raffled off houses and automobiles, had canaries singing in the grand stands. When the New York Yankees went to Chattanooga...
...traditional aspect of the circus is little less than sacred. Last week those sanctities were seriously threatened. Modernist Designer Norman Bel Geddes, who conceived General Motors' famed Futurama at the recent New York World's Fair, arrived at the Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's circus to begin a two-year modernization of "The Greatest Show On Earth." Mr. Geddes quickly assured the press that nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said, the menagerie would...