Big Top Boss

Name: Big Top Boss
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252064050
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JOHN RINGLING NORTH AND THE CIRCUS

Autor: David Lewis Hammarstorm

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Illinois Press

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A brilliant, eclectic showman, circus king John Ringling North achieved international fame as a tale...

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Autor

David Lewis Hammarstorm

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1994

strony

384

EAN

9780252064050

ISBN

0252064054

Enbook ID

04868615

Wydawca

University of Illinois Press

Waga

544

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 30

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A brilliant, eclectic showman, circus king John Ringling North achieved international fame as a talent scout, booking the likes of Gargantua the Great and Unus, the man who stood on his forefinger. He once engaged George Balanchine to choreograph a ballet for elephants, with Igor Stravinsky composing the music. Big Top Boss explores the remarkable career of North, who ran Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for thirty years. Using as a backdrop North's flamboyant lifestyle and the lavish spectacles he brought to the big top, David Lewis Hammarstrom details in lively and dramatic fashion how North guided the circus through adversities ranging from depressions and wars to crippling labor strikes and rapidly changing trends in American entertainment. This first balanced picture of North's controversial life reveals how his popular image as an impresario was shattered in the wake of his bitterly opposed 1956 decision to strike the tents for good and move the circus indoors. It also shows that North's circus was not artistically run down and losing money when he sold it in 1967 but in fact had been reestablished as a profitable enterprise that earned first-rate critical notices and was attracting larger crowds each year. Hammarstrom has interviewed a host of key circus figures including North himself; his brother, Henry; his famous general manager, Arthur M. Concello; and many performers, directors, and department heads who were involved with the circus when North owned and operated it. Big Top Boss also sheds new light on North's personal life, giving proper significance to his long-term relationship with Countess Ida von Zedlitz-Trutzschler, the onetime ballerina with whom he livedfor nearly thirty years.

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