Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet...
Last week, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved out of indoor arenas in Manhattan and Boston and pitched canvas in Long Island City, patrons of the Big Show sat in the first air-conditioned tent in circus history. Eight big trailers, each one a complete unit, pump ice-chilled air into the tent on hot days, warmed air on cold days...
...himself that day he took Billy, his younger brother, to see the circus at the Boston Garden. The place affected him strangely: the smells of sawdust and animal-flesh, grease paint and rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college...
Died. Mme Clémentine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her café, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners...
With the "World of Tomorrow" poised for the kill, he was glad of the chance to rest. For ahead still lies the serious business of selling the world tomorrow. He has got the circus into his tent. Now he has to get the public into his circus...