Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Straw Hat The big news on the tent and barn circuit this year is the release for summer theaters of that alltime box-office bombshell, My Fair Lady, and more than 80 summer theaters are offering Lady to the straw-hat and sunback...
Secret Journal. The novel, which draws heavily on Julian's own letters (more than 80 have been preserved), is cast in the form of a secret journal presumably written by Julian and discovered in his tent the night of his death by a garrulous old counselor, one Priscus, who serves as a sort of chorus...
Seltzer, in choosing to be as realistic as possible with an opulent production, has risked much. Sometimes the lavish effects work. Jon Warburg's lighting, especially in the storm scene and in the gloom of Brutus's tent on his last night, is imaginative and excellent. But the sound effects are artificial and distracting, the costumes cumbersome and noisy, and the battles athletic but hardly dramatic...
Film Fair. After that one, the most discussed picture is Parable, presented at the Protestant and Orthodox Center. Its central figure is a whitefaced clown. The circus is operated by Magnus the Great-a kind of Barnum and Belial character who sits in his tent and manipulates human marionettes strung on ropes high in the air. The whitefaced clown releases the ropes that hold the marionettes and frees them from bond age, replacing them himself. Stabbed by the agents of the malevolent Magnus, he is lofted on high, bleeding and suffering. He lets out a cry of agony and dies...
...oversized, undertalented anthology of Broadway show tunes-done by performers who seem to have been drawn from the senior class at high school. A circus playing to 35 people is one of the rainiest sights in the world, and one can see it in the Ringling tent. The circus is a good one too. Finally, the entire amusement area is ringed by American Machine & Foundry's monorail, which is a good ride but commands a view of the dreariest part of the fair...