Word: tamers
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...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
...upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time to scream, the lion tamer came over from the next ring and rescued the lady from the tigers...
...Living is comedy, cosseted into diversion. Insignificant, happy, it sweeps along relating how pretty Madge Bellamy, shrewd secretary to a shrewd divorce lawyer, marries a millionaire lumberman. While the organist fingers, "O Promise Me," she figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...
...recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio...
...brief, the stories are like body-punches from a bully-boy with chunky arms: how Denna Wyoming, the Negro lion-tamer, got chewed up by the blind brown bear; how Lila, the strong woman, died lovelorn, and had the calliope and elephant cage for her funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly...