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Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 American drama directed by Elia Kazan, starring Fredric March, Terry Moore and Gloria Grahame.The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood was based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson.
Her collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014. The title story won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction. [ 1 ] The book won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was a co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, [ 1 ] and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award [ 5 ...
The circus was always a success, until the year the Circus Oscuro appeared and began stealing the crowds. Barty was expecting his first child and knew he could not afford failure. He made a deal with the Great Cortado to combine the two circuses for the summer and then part ways. All was well until Barty's wife died in labour, leaving him ...
He is known for red-lighting circus workers. If workers were deemed to have committed some particularly egregious offense, they were thrown off while the train was passing over a trestle, presumably with the hope that they would die or be seriously injured. Kinko/Walter – A little person with whom Jacob shares living quarters on the circus ...
He also offers hospitality to Josh towards the end of the book and helps Josh to get a job in Baton Rouge at a circus and helped Josh get well after he caught a violent illness. Pete Harris, a man who employs Josh at the carnival he owns. He is to marry Josh's first love, Emily. Harris is Bessie's cousin. Not attractive, very stumpy, chubby and ...
The story is narrated by Eddie Johnston of Sauk City, who impulsively joins Farnum & Williams' All-American 3-Ring Circus and Side Show as a roustabout.Johnston enjoys circus life, but fears Mr. Indrasil, the fiery tempered lion tamer, who is rumored to have only nearly killed a roustabout who angered him. Mr. Indrasil in turn fears the circus' tiger, Green Terror, who once attacked him ...
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The story, written in third person narrative, includes espionage, murder, romance and humor.Many MacLean fans do not consider this to be one of his finer works. It is typical of his later period works, in that while it is quite well plotted (if stretching the bounds of believability), it is simplistically characterized, with dryly sardonic and superbly competent protagonists (particularly ...