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Into the Potomac freight yards just outside of Washington. D. C. last week rolled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. Off the tent cars came rain-wet canvas to dry in the sun. lest spontaneous combustion destroy what labor combustion had left of the Greatest Show on Earth. Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island surveyed the sorry scene, declared through G. O. P.'s publicity office: "Not even the great Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus can compete with the circus the New Deal is now giving...
Eliot: Stroke, D. Emerson; 7, A. Haddon; 6, W. Klein; 5, F. Barnum; 4, J. Lioyd; 3, A. Cook; 2, c. Keller; bow, E. Walkley; cox, R. proctor...
Music by Jimmy Dorsey and circus decorations designed with the aid of the Barnum and Bailey-Ringling Brothers circus will feature the Adams House dance on Monday...
...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...
Three years ago Colonel Tim McCoy of cinema and circus fame went to Providence, R. I. as a headliner in Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. There he met Benjamin Ladd Cook, amateur sportsman, former M. F. H.. and 30-year associate in Hornblower & Weeks. The two men discussed circuses and horses, and McCoy wound up by saying that what the U. S. needed was an honest-to-God wild west show. Last "authentic" wild west show. McCoy insisted, had been...