Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Independent Artists, who are notorious for their lack of dignity, their poor taste, and the total inexclusiveness of their membership. But the Independent Artists shows are noted also for their originality and the excitement they cause among untutored art patrons. The exhibition is often referred to as a "circus" or a "rodeo" by such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit an object of art under the auspices of this nonjury, non-prize-awarding organization, it is only necessary that the manufacturer of the object pay $8 to cover...
...hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also. Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher for adoption, and there the lachrymation bursts forth. Years afterward the mother is a friendly charwoman, finally a nurse in a wealthy family. A youth comes courting, confiding to the old nurse his love...
...Leopard Lady. She trains the big cats. He is a first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...
...Duchess of Wrexe" was dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside...
...Significance. This novel has long needed a writer. In Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...