Word: juggler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Consolidation is the current railroad cry. Like vaudeville jugglers, pitching lamps and crockery deftly aloft, are heads of great U. S. rail systems, throwing and catching the little roads upon whom they have merger designs. At times, however, the juggler's eye tires, his hand wavers...
Furthermore, the railroad juggler usually has the Interstate Commerce Commission shrieking "Drop it! Drop it!" from the front row. So occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company...
...remainder of the program includes the Theodore Bekefi Dancers in "The Life of the Dance." A large company supports Mr. Bekefi and Miss Robinson who are outstanding. Staer Kavanagh, Australian juggler, has little new to offer while Dooley and Morton, like their immediate predecessors, Ethel Davis and Mr. Norworth should stick to the field of musical comedy rather than venturing into that of vaudeville...
Poetry is dangerous metier for so gifted a juggler. In saner prose she has twice acquired merit: Jennifer Lorn is exquisitely humorous for its very artificiality; The Orphan Angel, good narrative for all the beauty of its imaginative flights...