Word: circusing
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Film Fair. After that one, the most discussed picture is Parable, presented at the Protestant and Orthodox Center. Its central figure is a whitefaced clown. The circus is operated by Magnus the Great-a kind of Barnum and Belial character who sits in his tent and manipulates human marionettes strung on ropes high in the air. The whitefaced clown releases the ropes that hold the marionettes and frees them from bond age, replacing them himself. Stabbed by the agents of the malevolent Magnus, he is lofted on high, bleeding and suffering. He lets out a cry of agony and dies...
...have to do that, and they are not succeeding. Texas' huge production, To Broadway with Love, costs from $2 to $4.80 and is an oversized, undertalented anthology of Broadway show tunes-done by performers who seem to have been drawn from the senior class at high school. A circus playing to 35 people is one of the rainiest sights in the world, and one can see it in the Ringling tent. The circus is a good one too. Finally, the entire amusement area is ringed by American Machine & Foundry's monorail, which is a good ride but commands...
Ringling Bros.' hairborne Rapunzel, Chrystine Holt, 21, is the new sensation of the 1964 circus. She came by her talent somewhat naturally. Her father juggles while he hangs by his teeth...
Chrys was born in Germany and started show business at the age of five, helping her father in the family juggling act. When he fell and broke his back two years ago in Hamburg, the circus owner asked her to go on in her father's place. Up she went, hair first, three balls dancing from her hands...
...Charles H. Graf, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "It is the betrayal in the garden, the awful death on the scaffold, Good Friday all the way, but no Easter morn. It is adult but not entertainment; it is a circus but not for children...