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...Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
Whenever the National Horse Show is held in Madison Square Garden, a bowlegged groom is procured from somewhere, dressed in a red coat, and stationed with the top-hatted judges in the middle of the tanbark. Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel." Thus it has been for many years. Thus it was last week, in spite of all nebulous rumors that new blood and new money have sullied...
...National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...
Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
...Adventurous Age. When George Tyler announced the return of Mrs. Patrick Campbell after a twelve-year absence from the U. S., greybeards revived the legends of her fiery temperament and explosive tantrums. They recalled how, in 1902, she ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic...