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Steinbeck has chosen for this theme the sort of treatment that must succeed splendidly or not at all. In an effort to universalize his characters, he has made them successively circus folk, farmers, seafarers. To exalt them further, he has made them as full of mysticism as philosophers, as lavish with metaphor as poets...
Lowoastein has a good arm, but he's not the aerial circus that Clayton is. The Chelmsford flash has a cross-bow right arm and throws beautiful bullet passes. Of course, ends Vince Marriott and John McDonald have been suffering from glue-fingertips but that Clayton--he's a football player's football...
...same glow animates Peirce's action-crammed paintings of the circus and of county fairs. In his flower pictures, which he paints in as little as 15 minutes, it becomes mere fireworks. And in such conventional efforts as his portrait of Bar Harbor's Dr. Clarence Little holding a mouse, it disappears...
There are four characters in Steinbeck's drama. In Act 1 they are circus performers concerned with the sterility of the hero, Joe Saul, In the second act Steinbeck makes them farmers, and by now wife Barbara Bel Geddes is about to have a child by a youth named Victor. Dramatic irony is carried to an extreme as Joe rants of nothing but "his" child. By the time the third act arrives, the characters are all sea-going folk, and Miss Bel Geddes is flagrantly pregnant...
Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...