Word: barnumism
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...century ago, P. T. Barnum produced The Drunkard to show the tragic effects of drink. In 1933 The Drunkard was revived in Los Angeles to show the comic effects of time. Last week the Los Angeles revival went into its seventh year,* breaking all known theatrical records for a continuous (seven-days-a-week...
Last week, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved out of indoor arenas in Manhattan and Boston and pitched canvas in Long Island City, patrons of the Big Show sat in the first air-conditioned tent in circus history. Eight big trailers, each one a complete unit, pump ice-chilled air into the tent on hot days, warmed air on cold days...
...have accepted are: John P. Armstrong, Francis G. Barnum, Thomas A. Boulger, Arthur Cantor, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., L. Blair Clark, Eugene V. Clark, William C. Coleman, Eric Cutler, Ralph H. Cutler, William H. Daughaday, James T. Devine, George A. Downing, Henry N. Ervin, John N. Fulham, Robert Fulton, Tudor Gardiner, Theodore L. Hazlett...
...Verne and Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and otherworldly wildness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all colors of the rainbow,--it's impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants...
...Barnum: "My voice, like my great show . . . will be heard centuries after I have joined the great, and as I believe, happy majority...