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...audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down from the murk upon the G. O. P.'s quadrennial passion play of politics...
...Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with...
...citizens who bowl, the letters A. B. C. stand, not for something children learn at school, but for the American Bowling Congress, in session for the past month at Indianapolis. Compared to the Congress at Indianapolis, the Congress at Washington is a midget. The A. B. C. has 300,000 members, of whom 15,000 made the trip to Indianapolis. The tournament, No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, costs $200,000, of which half is distributed to contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays...
...boards including one to resemble a map of Ethiopia with Haile Selassie's palace az high-score hole. To his confreres, Clinton S. Darling, secretary of the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers, expressed his confidence in a pastime which has already lasted twice as long as midget golf: "The industry has supported many thousands of factory workers in making these games and in allied industries. . . . We believe that this industry will go on in spite of temporary handicaps such as the situation now existing in New York...
Charmed with their drowsy man-mountain, the Lilliputians rig up a conveyor belt to feed him, entertain him with a stage show in which a peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic...