Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parades, music, an elephant borrowed from the Sells-Floto Circus, six Lincoln voters riding on a float, speeches, made up the scheduled events. Unscheduled were the activities of a squad of Dry agents under a "Missouri Democrat" who operated through Ripon during the celebration. At the height of the party and before the eyes of Secretary Good and Governor Kohler, they descended upon a soft-drink place directly opposite Jubilee headquarters, found inside several Wisconsin legislators, eight barrels of beer. Incensed celebrants threatened public condemnation by the State Legislature of this harassment by U. S. agents...
...movie world. Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw life through colored glasses and lived it as he saw it. He has retained to the present time that same feeling that makes a small boy delight in the circus, and a great deal of the charm of the volume is due to this fact...
Among the performers in the famed "Flying Circus" of the late Baron von Richthofen of Germany was a 22-year-oldster high in the Baron's esteem-Alfred Wolff, university graduate, engineer, early an ace. When the Baron was plunged to his death, many of his duties devolved upon Ace Wolff. Against French and English aces Wolff fought fierce battles. It happened that he had never to fight a U. S. flyer...
...awarded. Among the winners : Acting - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) ; Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command) ; Directing - Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) ; Engineering Effects - Roy Pomeroy (Wings) ; Outstanding Picture - Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. (Wings). Charles Chaplin was specially rewarded for being writer, actor, director, producer of The Circus...
...resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...