Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1950 — Page 10

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feeling of a man who has atfue fo a sale of uncalled-for ex-

Adams County Editor Has That ‘Been Taken’ Feeling After Visiting Grady's Great Shows

THE ART of reviewing shows, concerts and other public enter- : tainment is not necessarily better today than in earlier times. From -the pages of “Snow's History of Adams County” (Indi- to

box 1absied watches,’ which contains nothing.

ana), comes a description of a traveling circus-show which appeared old girls roosting around on boxes,

fn Decatur around 1880.

Dan J. Callen, then editor of the old Decatur Independent, made : gan approach, bawled out: 1 also’ saw_the 3nd. the “ ‘Here's the place to feast your He’ mammoth

personal inspection of “Grady's — Great Shows.” He wrote: > |snake charmer, the dwarf and) oq them. The giant was the “On ‘the first day of this month the great Russian giant. - This smallest specimen of his kind in Grady’s colossal show struck this ve pattle-scarred veteran of a existence, while the dwarf had town and showed. 'hundred fiercely-contested actions the unigue distinction of being the. “It was not a very propitious owes his escape to a rapid appli-| Ipiggest dwarf in the world. day for an exhibition of any kind. cation of the soles of his pedal: “About the time everybody go It was entirely too cool. extremities to as widely separated disgusted and was origi “However, 1 took this show ir’ ‘sections of the Orient as the sneak out, a disreputable old vilfrom ‘a to izzard.’ 1 first arrived length of his legs would permit. lain got upon a box and motioned at what is technically known as Get your tickets and walk right/the men to come near him. the ‘side show.’ A large, smooth-|in. Only 4 dime, one-tenth of a! “Then he said that just baek faced man stood on a box in front dollar, or 10 cents’ ‘of him there was a sort of private

of the tent. Every once in a while sw ishow designed for men only. That and sometimes oftener he'd yell! «1 pop the prise and went in settled it for me. . I didn’t care

‘out of the cool, fierce wind. to see anything that was not fit

“‘Here's the place to see the! “After I got in I had that pecu- for a woman to look at. How-

Be a al Donkht ars con- kind.

STRAUSS SAYS:

NOTICE TO THE READERS INDIANAPOLIS

THE SALE IS ON— The MEN'S CLOTHING SALE IS ON!

The sweeping, spectacular sale— opens Tuesday. To give it a wide-open send off—with the greatest possible convenience to the great number of people that will want to share in it—

The Doors Open Tuesday at high noon, 12 o'clock : 2 (and stay open till — 9 o'clock)

Thus our out-of-town patrons— share with Indianapolis the opportunity to be on hand when the Sale opens— at an hour convenient to all! The Evening hours give families the opportunity to shop together and to enjoy mutually the opportunities of the Sale. Of course, this is not a one-day sale—Tuesday's Noon-to-Nine schedule is to give the Sale a hearty send-off,

GOOD AFTERNOON and GOOD EVENING

The sale will run 10 days or so— + after its Tuesday Premiere. It will continue during regular Store hours— 9:30 #ill 5. It will be a great Clothing Sale—every day— during its course. You can count on it!

THE SALE IS ON—IT BEGINS AT HIGH NOON TUESDAY AT 12— SEE YOUR MONDAY NEWSPAPER

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oN 1 8 el ore to the big show, »

of the tent, who, upon seeing me

“There “Was a barker in front

Restores Your Faith Clarence has a family . , . but/find , . . {he’s pretty much a self-made boy. He also has a speech impediment . +. but that's been no obstaclejowner. He

body else in town. And he’s earned pig pa them. : nly ms Clazence is all aver. Raltamo, a" the station, in ts, . at ball g or on the

‘However,

to the boy who's learned how to ‘stand up against hard knocks. ° There's no particylar reason {or

and a big the thing he

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mense cost from the Re-bound| shores of northern Greenland to the torrid swamps of equatorial Africa. Only 50 cents—children, 25¢. “Once more I dug up and entered. X +“And once more I had that feeling of a man who has innocently married a woman with false teeth, false hair and a wooden leg.

“I saw a water buffalo, a sacred bull and three or four fat camels. I also saw a large elephant storing away newcut hay in an aperture in the lower part of his abundant face. For a while I was lost in admiration of his lovely complexion. An ordinary elephant has a complexion like an Mexican adobe—about 25 square yards of it. oe : “IN ONE of the cages I notice a medium-sized baboon languishing in solitary confinement, He .unsocial and as hard to approach as a telegraph operator. “No smile of welcome {lluminated his melancholy mug. He was engaged in entomological research and was confining his field of activities to his own person. “I then went into the circus department and bought a reserved seat and sat down on it. The circus was very ordinary. “When it came to an end every one who had a dime and felt like parting with it was permitted to stay for the concert. I borrowed a-dime and stayed. I've been sorry ever since. :

“A girl dressed in silk came out

dience, spit on her hands and jumped up on a platform. Then somebody started something that was intended for music. “As soon as the girl noticed it she began to kick and grab at something over her head. I asked the man from whom I had borrowed the dime if he knew what ailed her. He said she was dancing the skirt dance,

were hustled out into the cold wind, + The show was over.”

Conventions Call 22 From Butler

Teachers to Attend .

Holiday Conferences

Twenty - two Butler University faculty members will attend educational conferences in New York HOity, Cle

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“Then we had a few songs and |

nd-Chicago dur-|

ing the Christmas vacation: Thirteen professors will attend |. the following conventions in New| York City:

Modern Language Association. Dec. 27-29—Dr. Paul A. Cundiff,! Profs. Roy Marz, Nancy Moore,| Werner Beyer and James L.! Woodress Jr. of the English De-!

partment. |

| Speech Association of America,

| Dec. 28-30—Dr, George P. Rice Jr.| {head of speech department and)

{Dean of Men L. Gray Burdin. |

{| Evangelical Theological Society, {Dec. 27-28—Dr. Gordon H. Clark| lana Prof. Thomas M. Gregory of | the philosophy department. National Association of Biblical Literature, Dec. 27-30 — Dr. E. Robert Andry, Dr. T, W. Nakari, Prof. David C. Pellett and Prof.

of Religion. Seven to Chicago Seven will attend Chicago meetings, as follows: American Historical Association, Dec. 28-30-—Dr. Roy M. Robbins, Profs. Hubert H. Hawkins, {Roland G. Usher and Emma Lou | Thornbrough, all of the history and political science department. American Economic Association, Dec. 27-29--Dean H. C. Graebner of the College of Business Administration. American Bociety of Church History, Dee. 27-20—Prof. Ronald E. Osborn and Prof. A. C. Watters of the School of Religion. The other two will attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dec, 26-30, at Cleveland. They are Dr. John E. Potzger of the botany depart-

8. Marion Smith, all of the School |’

ment and Prof. Benjamin Moul-|

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check in it. A couple of people told Clarence to hang on to his but Clarence thought it out and decided the right thing to do was to return it to the

t a $100 reward .. . r reward for doing knew was ri

named Clarence.”

_Chureh of St. Nikola In Oberndor, Salzburg, ~~ Night, Holy Night” was first played and r sung on Christmas Eve, 1818. The words were written by Vicar Josef Mohr of the shurch—and the music was composed by his friend, Franz Xaver Gruber:

We have hod mony—a great maony—inquiries about the CATHEDRAL on our First Floor, It wos carved with a pen knife by the late Alexander Tschaegle, @ notive of France but a resident of Indianapolis for decodes— until his pessing o few years ogo. It is a replica of the world fomed. Cathedral of Strasbourg, France,

Clarence Larson . .. "a kid

he makes it. ;

REDS TIGHTEN TIES ° HONG KONG, Dec. 23 (UP)— The Chinese Communist government in Peking is now in direct contact with Moscow. Radio

Peking said the two capitals are caught a man emptying a park-|linked together by the world’s ing meter. As they came up the longest telephone line—7500 miles.

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C(hRISTMAS

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