Word: leitzel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flatfooted, the equestrians are bowlegged, the clowns act drunk. It is, of course, the circus, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus- never changing, except to become, as Press Agent Dexter Fellowes must repeat in his sleep, "bigger and better." This year many old favorites are back including Lillian Leitzel, pretty enough for Mr. Ziegfeld to glorify, who twists and turns on a rope; and Goliath, the sea elephant, who has gained exactly one ton since last seen by his adoring public. This year there are many new acts, not the least astounding of which is that in which...
This Year of Grace was heralded by fanfares, tuckets and sennets such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...
...white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs...
...aerial gymnasts in the world," its tigers are "the greatest and most thrilling wild animals ever offered in this or any other country" and its elephants are"the biggest brutes that breathe." Miss Bertha Beeson is "positively and obviously the most sensational high wire artist of all time," Mile. Leitzel " breaks every law of gravity," and the circus advertises its clowns as being so funny that they "would even make a prude smile." It seems never to have occurred to the press agents, barkers and ballyhoo men of Barnum and Bailey's that anybody might ask "Well, what...