Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note on page 26 under the caption "Life, Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week." Mr. Tom Mix has a signed contract with the Sells Floto Circus Company for his services starting on May 26 and lasting-I hope forever. . . . ZACK TERRELL...
General Manager Sells Floto Circus Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Mix was last week indicted by the Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charged with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.-ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila...
Christina (Fox). Janet Gaynor is the first picture actress to suggest convincingly real, virginal youth. Her beautiful and delicate charm, made famous in Seventh Heaven, is now set to work in a pretty, painstaking, and rather inane film about a Dutch girl who falls in love with a circus performer, and, after difficulties, is united to him. Best shots-the Dutch village...
...lions, bears, monkeys, the population of the Ark itself. And men and women-tiny men and tiny women, tall men and tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed men and bearded women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from Sarasota, Fla., where all winter the Circus has hibernated like the strange animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts...
Heinrich Hagenbeck (Hagenbeck Circus, Hagenbeck Zoo) completed last week his advisory remodelling of the Detroit and Toledo zoos, sailed for Hamburg. Said he: "The U. S. has the rarest collection of animals in the world...