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...idea of what children want to hear. From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record -I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..." So Grenell put out plenty of that (The Little Fireman, The Circus Comes to Town...
Like other offspring of unhappily married parents, De Maupassant matured too quickly. At the age of nine he was writing to his mother: "I was first in composition and as a reward Madame de X took me to the circus with Papa. It seems she was also rewarding Papa for something, but I don't know what...
...mayor, being both a wise and thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...
This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...
...satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...