Word: circusman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, got an operatic assist from Circusman Robert Ringling, who sent her a hand-picked horse to dress up horsy Gotterdammerung. Diva Traubel got the Wagnerian score and the horse together, but the horse just looked baffled (see cut); he didn't know the score...
Sued for Divorce. Circusman Henry Ringling North, vice president of Ringling Bros.; by Ada Mae North; in Sarasota...
...Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...
...greatest show on earth next season. Ringling's insists it's on the level, that the writers put their names on the dotted line, but the best Mencken would say was "I'm meditating upon the offer," while Duranty said his own acceptance is "most improbable." Circusman John Ringling North started it over drinks in a Manhattan nightclub. His bid for Mencken was $12 a week, for Duranty...
...Circusman North so far was so good. Said he: "Gargantua is infatuated. Naturally M'Toto was modest and bashful." When he is reasonably sure that they will not tear each other apart, he will let the couple share the same cage...