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...again in 1946. After years of wrangling, Producer Howard Hughes tidied up the film (and his ads) and received an official purity seal in 1949. **Others now shooting: The Littlest Show on Earth, an Italian 3-D spoof of Cecil B. De-Mille's 1951 circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth: Public Enemy No. i, a lampoon of Hollywood gangster films, with French Comic Fernandel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...Circus Parade. The columns and the sounds swelled. "Down with the People's Army! We want butter!" "Freedom! Freedom!" Shopkeepers" hurriedly clanged down shutters of their stores and peered through the slits. From side streets and cluttered curbs, hundreds of others drifted into the march. Other columns melted into the one from Stalinallee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Rebellion in the Rain | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...chopped trees in Pomerania, he played in Labor Service bands, he served in the army, and finally returned to the Jesuits. After Germany's defeat, he preached to refugees from the Eastern zone and former soldiers. But he yearned for a larger challenge. In 1949, in a circus tent in Essen, he began a "crusade for ethical revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesuit Crusader | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Reunion's annual circus hit town yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Carnival Kicks Off; '28 Floods Union, Pudding | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge, airy golden cage topped by a crown. There was even a mechanical nightingale in Berkeley Square (they tried a real one, but he would not sing). Everything gleamed with fresh color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Big Day | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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