Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props. He fell in love with the circus proprietor's daughter, attempted to fake a tight-rope act, got nibbled by monkeys, ran away, helped the circus proprietor's daughter to marry a competent tight-rope walker. Then the little tramp, gay and forlorn, walked away down a road until he was out of sight...
Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...
...mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both of them. The melodrama of the story would make it seem strained in any setting; but such is the splendor of the background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms...
...Story: In almost every town, there is at least one building containing an elevator. In this small and dirty mechanical marvel there squats an old man, usually colored, holding in his hand a bit of frayed rope. When some citizen or sight-see-er enters the elevator with the desire to be hoisted upward, the old blackamoor makes a sad sound and tugs at his rope. Then there is a flash of light, a noise of grinding wheels, a draft of wind; with a slow, drunken irregularity, the rickety cage wobbles toward...
...larger cities, the old man with the rope has been replaced by a rude whippersnapper in striped pants & buttons. In certain office buildings, he lounges against a lever, hurtling the passengers toward the floor which they desire to reach...