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...sideshow nature of the play* makes possible a diversity of insights into the Comédie's methods of production. If much is traditional and even ritualistic, very little seems petrified. In view of interspersed high slapstick of dancing and singing and fencing masters, of ostentatious banquet scenes and staircase serenades, of a Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm...
...married at 16, but left her husband a year later and then joined the Cole Bros. Circus, singing with the sideshow band. "I saw the whole country," she says. "I saw America like the millionaires didn't see it!" The Gangsters Were Quiet. In the 1918 flu epidemic, she was seriously...
...Faust checks his props, takes his seat by the fireplace, opens a book on his lap. Backstage voices are hushed. In the darkness behind the study, the set for Scene 2 is all ready to be pulled into place: three sideshow stalls, a circular bandstand, the entrance to the Bacchus Inn. The chorus files in and Chorus Master Walter Taussig mounts a stepladder that is steadied by a stagehand. When he reaches eye level with a small hole in the canvas sidewall of Faust's study-through which he will be able to watch the conductor-Taussig opens...
...bound for a day of fishing in the Gulf Stream. At a table on her afterdeck sat the High Tide's owner: Harry J. (for Johnston) Grant, 72, a florid-faced millionaire with china-blue eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep-sea fishing line trailing over the stern, he riffled through mountains of papers, pounded out letters and memos on a portable...
There are still many people in this country intrigued enough by McCarthy's sideshow not to be concerned with Piddling things like proper legislative functions. There are still, in this country, many people who want to see McCarthy investigate anything he desires. The bread and circuses are so attractive they are willing to pay the price of ignoring Constitutional limitations. But as the Senator's proposals get more absurd, the interest is bound to drop for good. At that time will Joe McCarthy be permanently relegated to the dismal niche in American history he has carved for himself...