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Instead of sparing the slightly unbalanced Gates national notoriety, Whitey imported sound trucks and reporters for one of Dartmouth's biggest publicity outbursts. We doubt if Gates found the "peace" he sought, but we'd willingly wager that with Whitey as his manager, he could clean up in a sideshow circuit...
Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis and Bride Hope Dare were invited to appear as sideshow freaks in Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley's Odditorium in Manhattan and at a New York World's Fair concession...
...Park Church of Christ at Fort Worth, Texas, encountered a sore temptation. During the Fort Worth "Frontier Centennial" he met smart little Showman Billy Rose, who told him he would do well in the movies. When Producer Jesse L. Lasky's Gateway to Hollywood contest set up its sideshow in Fort Worth fortnight ago, star-rapt Parson McClung thought he saw his chance. So did Lasky's talent scouts, who put him down as the best prospect† they had found in many a Texas mile...
...week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...