Word: contortionist
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With these peaceful words, Contortionist Ehrenburg took his seat and the trained seals flapped their flippers thunderously...
...Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...
...vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist and a helter-skelter clown, Berle can sing, dance, juggle act, do card tricks, imitations and acrobatics, ride a unicycle and mug under water...
Tilly Losch, febrific terpsichorean contortionist, the wife (on inactive status) of the Earl of Carnarvon, discussed her lives for a Manhattan society columnist. "My role of ballerina comes first. Second is my work as a choreographer. My acting comes third, my painting fourth. I rate my role as Lady Carnarvon fifth in importance simply because I can't think of anything interesting to put after painting...
...yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...