Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horses! Horses! Horses!" laughed "Poodles" Hanneford, "that's my stock in trade, and I have four of them here at the theatre that I've had for years and years." The famous English clown and bareback rider, who is now doing his stuff in "The Circus Princess" at the Shubert, was talking to a CRIMSON reporter the other...
...that, thank God ; the world would be a dusty place if all tastes were alike. De gustibus non disputandum. One of the most entertaining features of your magazine is the uproar of people who insist upon disputanding other people's gustibusses. I find delight in watching that weekly circus, even if you do sometimes allow too many encores, permitting obvious pinheads to overstay their welcome. Run your magazine to please yourselves. Don't try to please everybody -it can't be done. Believe me, I know- I have been editing for 40 years. JOHN PALMER GAVTT...
...with Nobile's injunctions to keep down the weight of all baggage, we had each brought a little flag not much larger than a pocket handkerchief. . . . Imagine our astonishment to see Nobile dropping overside not one, but armfuls of flags. For a few moments the Norge looked like a circus wagon of the skies. ... I was amused at his childish pleasure in feeling that he had 'put something over' and gained a greater honor for his country by the size and number of its flags deposited in the unseeing vastness of the Arctic. ... I laughed aloud...
...from these more or less accurate pieces of theatrical realism, which picture the scenes beyond the wings in more truth than has hitherto been their portraiture, to the flood of circus movies which burst upon the movie-going public of two or three years ago. Almost impossible it is to believe that the cinema would ever see its ideas adopted by the stage, but that is precisely what has happened...
...circus travel "as far inland as Beaumont, Tex." This city is a port, according to Rand McNally, the Southern Pacific Railroad, my own observations, the United States Shipping Board and other authorities. Of course if Mr. Tully insists that it is inland perhaps you can prevail upon these authorities to change their statements...