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...were not complicated enough in itself, the Hiss-Chambers case had become a legal three-ring circus...
...respectable lady and went on triumphantly as Violet. Ever since, except for a brief spell of discouragement when she thought of becoming a speech teacher, Olivia has pursued her profession with the same energy and bounce that led her high-school class to predict that she would become a "circus queen...
There was a two-ring circus in the Blockhouse yesterday afternoon, but no matter which way you turned the Harvards were on top and the Wesleyans were on the bottom. The varsity wrestlers turned in a tidy 24-6 job while the freshmen triumphed...
Geddes spent 30 years building a huge organization (2,200 employees at the peak) that turned out everything from costume designs for circus elephants to General Motors' famed Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Geddes also designed more than 200 musical comedies, operas, and straight dramatic productions, and produced some first-rate hits (e.g., Dead End). The overhead ($884,000 a year) and high blood pressure forced him to shut up shop in 1946, and later take to his bed for six months. When he got up, he started again (at 55) with a staff...
...Pair of Garters. His Manhattan studio on 18th Street has a dusty, comfortable, behind the scenes look; it is littered with circus costumes, antlers, decoy ducks, a trumpet, a mandolin, a pair of pink garters. Photographs of archaic Greek statues share the walls with theater posters, cutouts of full-blown society belles of the '90s, and shiny dragoon helmets...