Word: forepaugh
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...Park, twenty minutes by foot from the State T-stop. The Big Apple is a two-elephant circus. That is how a circus used to be advertised, by the elephant-count. In the late nineteenth century, circus owners competed for the elephant crown. In 1881, Barnum had four elephants, Forepaugh had five, and the Sells Brothers called their gig the "Great European Seven Elephant Railroad Show." No match for Pompey, who is 61 B.C. advertised a celebration at the Circus Maximus in his own honor and promised that five hundred lions and twenty pachyderms would be slain...
...with people he could never have known. He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show. Legend also has it that he frequently played at dice with Showman Adam Forepaugh. Mr. Fellowes does recall having once seen Showman Forepaugh in his father's Hartford, Conn., drug store...
...sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...
Died. Charles Forepaugh, 91, of West Berlin, N. J., oldtime circus man (Fore-paugh's Aggregation, Forepaugh & Sells Bros.), "first trainer to place his head in a lion's mouth" (1874); in West Berlin...
Dance committee, F. F. Brooks, G. T. Nicholas, W. H. Pouch, J. L. Forepaugh, G. P. Putnam...