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...fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn...
...holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...
When Santa Claus arrives in Boston on Thanksgiving Day after a long hop from the frozen North, one hundred and fifty Harvard students, garbed in multicolored costumes and leading the weirdly shaped Tony Sarg balloons will be at hand to greet...
Unlike the Tony Sarg productions, no serious effort is made at realism. The puppets are a race apart, talented and entertaining, but with the temperament of a Pinocchio. It is scarcely possible to describe "The Piccoli" as a mere puppet show, it is rather a carnival, acted by an immense cast under the aegis of a group of maestros in the art of manipulating marionettes...