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...scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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