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Although three-D is passe, the circus is dying, and the Conventions promise little in the way of thrills, the Group 20 production of Goethe's Faust (Part I) shows that the theatre is still capable of providing exciting spectacle...
...show business ended in Pittsburgh, and John Ringling North, hereditary boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, pronounced an epitaph: "The tented circus as it now exists is a thing of the past." Last of the surviving big-time big tops, Ringling struck its huge tent for the last time, packed up to limp back to winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla., though the season was but half over. The big show's ailments: television, labor troubles, miserable weather this year, and soaring costs. Starting next April, North added bravely, the circus will sally forth again and play...
Often spotty and frequently disjointed, the film traces the history of bullfighting from Rome's Circus Maximus to Ava Gardner, examines a matador's life from his eating habits (little or no food before a fight so that he can be operated on immediately if a goring lays open his belly) to his occupational hazards (an estimated 10% of bullfighters are killed in the ring, 13% are crippled, 40% are wounded at least 20 times in their careers...
...great painter, he was a master draftsman. Even in the madhouse, he drew a set of circus pictures with a ringmaster's eye for a false move. His latest biographers (husband-and-wife team of Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, who have also done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name...
...British premiere of her circus-set movie Trapeze (TIME. June 11), Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida busted forth in London in the company of Sir Laurence Olivier, who unaccountably let his gaze stray to other things...