Word: circusing
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...march north of the Channel, it was perhaps a bad week for self-styled Animal Trainer Karl Steinmann to prove his courage in Paris. He had come to France from Vienna last June and signed up as a dompteur or wild animal tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that...
Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
...Leger has lost none of his fire. Cluttering his little Left Bank studio are sketches for a book to be called The Circus, costume and set designs for the new Darius Milhaud opera Bolivar, and studies for a memorial to the U.S. war dead which he hopes to decorate with huge, gay, half-abstract ceramics of planes, ships and smiling young men with their helmets...
...Sweeney, "is also one of the valuable raw materials of the country. Bad taste, strong colors-it is all here for the painter to organize and get the full use of its power. Girls in sweaters with brilliant-colored skin; girls in shorts dressed more like acrobats in the circus than one would ever come across on a Paris street. If I had only seen girls dressed in good taste [in the U.S.] I would never have painted my cyclist series...