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Danny plays a master in a British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...Critic Alain Jouffroy: "Paris once was a volcano. It is now gradually turning into a big circus." Although there are many new performers in that circus, the best acts are the work of an older generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: ECOLE DE PARIS | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Those Eyes See." The scene is a corner of a vast circus tent, where there is a platform for a sideshow. ("Clothes that have the look of vestments of many churches and times have been left about.") Enter Mr. Zuss and Nickles, actors once, now a couple of old circus vendors in white caps and jackets, Mr. Zuss selling balloons, Nickles selling popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patience of J.B. | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...space where the circus shows off its freaks, directly below the main arena where hockey players hack at one another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art in the Garden | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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