Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose, on the first lot. Mr. Ringling will continue, however, to operate his various shows as separate units...
...menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant. But gradually the show grew bigger, the animals wilder, the freaks more peculiar and the patronage more substantial. In 1907 Mr. Ringling bought control of Barnum & Bailey, became leader of the industry which he now dominates. His combined employe list totals some 6,500, and his wealth is estimated in eight figures...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory and other foreign matter in metal castings, particularly those made of aluminum, urged W. L. Fink and Robert Samuel Archer of Aluminum Co. of America's Cleveland Research Laboratories. Using the X-rays immediately after the first pours into the molds will quickly show if the "mix" is incorrect or if cores, patterns, risers or chills must be modified...
...anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot be himself...