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...Circus...
Well, who'd have thought it? The old war-horse turns out to be a thoroughbread; the circus was total theatre in disguise. Students of Cinema can stop combing the archives for neglected master-pieces. Gone With the Wind is a great film...
...North had been boss of the 97-year-old family circus since 1936, and with his brother Henry, 58, held a controlling 51% of the stock. While John lived in Paris, Rome and Zurich for most of the past four years, he left details to Henry and grew ever more weary of dealing with fractious minority shareholders...
...reason why North finally agreed to sell was that the deal included the Felds, who gross $6,500,000 a year handling such headliners as Harry Belafonte and Andy Williams. As agents for the circus since 1956, they were credited with helping it survive at a time when TV was hurting the box office and its own costly small-town "big top" shows were hurting profits. Now well in the black, the circus is expected to end its current season next week with a record $8,500,000 in receipts...
...circus also made a mark at Hofheinz's Astrodome two years ago, when it drew a record crowd of 41,000 for a single performance. Hofheinz, 55, wants to cover "the gamut of family entertainment." Along with a convention-minded Astrohall and four Astromotels in the works, he is building a $10 million, 56-acre Astroworld (a Texas version of Disneyland) hard by the Astrodome to be "the greatest complex of family enjoyment, sports entertainment and show facilities in the world." That does not leave much for the Greatest Show on Earth, but its fans can be thankful that...