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Book Synopsis Clowns and Cannons by : William L. Slout
Download or read book Clowns and Cannons written by William L. Slout and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and the number of proprietors had reached a peak that would not be exceeded until the early 1870s. But still the show had to go on! Complete with notes, index, bibliography, and contemporaneous illustrations.
Book Synopsis Clowns and Cannons by : William Lawrence Slout
Download or read book Clowns and Cannons written by William Lawrence Slout and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1997 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and the number of proprietors had reached a peak that would not be exceeded until the early 1870s. But still the show had to go on! Complete with notes, index, bibliography, and contemporaneous illustrations.
Download or read book The Big Tent written by Gregory J. Renoff and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region’s upheavals. The Big Tent relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits. Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.
Book Synopsis Contortionists and Cannons by : Marc Tyler Nobleman
Download or read book Contortionists and Cannons written by Marc Tyler Nobleman and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how circuses got their start and what is happening under the big top today.
Download or read book Clowns Like Me written by Jason Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his world premiere, one-man show "Clowns Like Me," Sarasota actor and storyteller Scott Ehrenpreis tells his humorous yet profound story of living with mental illness. "Clowns Like Me" reveals the fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting true story of Scott's personal journey as he struggles against OCD, bipolar disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, social anxiety and depression. Ultimately, Scott discovers that being on stage gives him the power, even for just a couple hours, to step into the light and leave the shadows of his mental health struggles behind. Audiences are in for a show that will make them laugh, cry and leave thinking differently about the stigmas tied to mental health.
Download or read book Clowns on Vacation written by Nina Laden and published by Walker Childrens. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When clowns go on vacation, the whole world is a circus. When the circus is over, After the standing ovation, What do clowns do When they go on vacation? They make us laugh until our sides ache, but these hardworking clowns just need a break. Now that the Big Top is folded and their bags are all packed, the Clownmans are taking a rest from their act. Whether they're climbing a mountain or digging for treasure, they always seem to have a nose for adventure. Wherever they go, whatever they do, they are always clowns through and through. Nina Laden skillfully and seamlessly combines photomontage with vibrant gouache paintings to create a picture book chock-full of verbal and visual humor that will delight audiences of all ages.
Book Synopsis Keeper of the Clown by : John Cherry
Download or read book Keeper of the Clown written by John Cherry and published by John Cherry Synidication, LLC.. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ernest P. Worrell became an advertising and motion picture icon by being bounced aboard a rolling 20-foot cannon, shoved off a rooftop, and shocked from a TV short. John Cherry recounts the thrill ride of taking Ernest from local TV ads to big-screen movie hits--all the while being bounced around himself by bankers, the IRS and Disney executives. In this hilarious--and mostly true--look behind the scenes, Cherry tells how he came to put actor Jim Varney in a khaki baseball cap, sell TV commercials to scores of clients, nab Barbra Streisand's manager as his own, and successfully direct Varney's unpredictable creative genius"--P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Clown by : Jacky Bratton
Download or read book The Victorian Clown written by Jacky Bratton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Clown is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book - offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic managed audience attention for the riders and acrobats, parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' - stand-up comedy sets. Plays in the ring connect the circus to the stage, and both these men were also comic singers, giving a sharp insight into popular music just as it was being transformed by the new institution of music hall.
Download or read book Red Meat Gold written by Max Cannon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a disturbing yet hilarious cast of characters, "Red Meat Gold" is the third demented collection from the popular syndicated alternative paper comic strip artist.
Download or read book Humanants: The Undefined Mind written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Singing Clowns and Songsters by : Kelly M. Wilson
Download or read book Singing Clowns and Songsters written by Kelly M. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Book of Clowns by : George Speaight
Download or read book The Book of Clowns written by George Speaight and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Build a Hovercraft by : Stephen Voltz
Download or read book How to Build a Hovercraft written by Stephen Voltz and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Coke and Mentos fountain makers who found initial fame via Maker Faire and YouTube (more than 150 million views!) comes this collection of DIY science projects guaranteed to inspire a love of experimentation. Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, also known as EepyBird, share their favorite projects: a giant air vortex cannon, a leaf blower hovercraft, a paper airplane that will fly forever, and many more. Each experiment features instructions that will take users from amateur to showman level—there's something here for all skill levels—alongside illustrations, photographs, and carefully explained science. How to Build a Hovercraft is guaranteed to engage curious minds and create brag-worthy results!
Download or read book Good Stuff written by Jennifer Grant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making movies when his daughter was born so that he could be with her and raise her, which is just what he did. Good Stuff is an enchanting portrait of the profound and loving relationship between a daughter and her father, who just happens to be one of America’s most iconic male movie stars. Cary Grant’s own personal childhood archives were burned in World War I, and he took painstaking care to ensure that his daughter would have an accurate record of her early life. In Good Stuff, Jennifer Grant writes of their life together through her high school and college years until Grant’s death at the age of eighty-two. Cary Grant had a happy way of living, and he gave that to his daughter. He invented the phrase “good stuff” to mean happiness. For the last twenty years of his life, his daughter experienced the full vital passion of her father’s heart, and she now—delightfully—gives us a taste of it. She writes of the lessons he taught her; of the love he showed her; of his childhood as well as her own . . . Here are letters, notes, and funny cards written from father to daughter and those written from her to him . . . as well as bits of conversation between them (Cary Grant kept a tape recorder going for most of their time together). She writes of their life at 9966 Beverly Grove Drive, living in a farmhouse in the midst of Beverly Hills, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing through the thick and thin of Jennifer's growing up; the years of his work, his travels, his friendships with “old Hollywood royalty” (the Sinatras, the Pecks, the Poitiers, et al.) and with just plain-old royalty (the Rainiers) . . . We see Grant the playful dad; Grant the clown, sharing his gifts of laughter through his warm spirit; Grant teaching his daughter about life, about love, about boys, about manners and money, about acting and living. Cary Grant was given the indefinable incandescence of charm. He was a pip . . . Good Stuff captures his special quality. It gives us the magic of a father’s devotion (and goofball-ness) as it reveals a daughter’s special odyssey and education of loving, and being loved, by a dad who was Cary Grant.
Download or read book Bad Clowns written by Benjamin Radford and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history of the earliest clowns -- The despicable rogue Mr. Punch -- The unnatural nature of the evil clown -- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns -- Bad clowns of the Ink -- Bad clowns of the Screen -- Bad clowns of the Song -- The carnal carnival: Buffoon boffing and clown sex -- Creepy, criminal, and killer clowns -- Activist clowns -- Crazed caged carny clowns -- The phantom clowns -- Troll clowns and the future of bad clowns
Book Synopsis Heart Breaks and Cannon Fodder by : Charles Lemar Brown
Download or read book Heart Breaks and Cannon Fodder written by Charles Lemar Brown and published by Broken L Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic trip through the life of one poet. Laugh at the humor. Cry at the heartbreaks. Soar on the wings of Love. And that just the first half – Lust, Sex, Love, Heartbreaks. Scream at injustice. Plead for change. And Question everything – in Politically Incorrect and Cannon Fodder. Prepare to have your emotions exhausted as you travel through thirty-five years of poetic therapy. But be forewarned, if it’s only nice, sweet innocent poetry you are looking for, this is not the place for you. The poetry within this volume is no holds barred and raw. The poetic voyage from young man to old. From completely lost to new beginnings. And you are invited to share in the journey.
Book Synopsis Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Classic Goosebumps #14) by : R. L. Stine
Download or read book Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Classic Goosebumps #14) written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps now on Disney+! Next summer you'll stay home...if you survive!The food isn't great. The counselors are a little strange. And the camp director seems demented. Billy can handle all that. But then strange things start to happen after dark, his parents won't answer his letters, and his fellow campers start to disappear. What's going on? Camp Nightmoon is turning into Camp Nightmare! And Billy might be next.
