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...Paso Jew named Jacob Ehrlich, who calls himself Jack Earle when on exhibition, claims to be 8 ft. 6 in. That height seems to be a favorite among sideshow giants. John G. Tarver of Alba, Tex., claims it. Clifford Thompson of Stevens Point, Wis. claims an inch more. Dr. Humberd frankly does not believe them. He insists that they fake their real heights by wearing high-heeled shoes and tall hats...
...college football game, the sporting capital of the entire world. This unique occurrence, moreover, happens so regularly that Long Islanders scarcely bothered to raise their eyebrows at all last week at the prospect of a program which in many ways makes the Olympic Games at Berlin look like a sideshow...
This "scientific" effect has been discarded by the Coney Island sideshow ballyhoo merchants. ... I don't know a single magician in the U. S., or even a carnival sideshow fakir who would dare to attempt this feat today, for every 16-year-old youngster probably knows how it is done. Actually what happens is that the fakir wears a harness, or corset-like arrangement. . . . Enclosed herewith are photostats from the most famous book of magic ever written-Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman, which was written in England in the early 1890's. . . . Note that...
...freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...