Circus queen & Tinker Bell : the memoir of Tiny Kline / Tiny Kline ; edited by Janet M. Davis.
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| Other title: | Circus queen and Tinker Bell. |
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- The bend in the road
- As Mrs. Private Citizen, viewing the parade
- A flight on gossamer wings
- In pursuit of a mirage to yesterday
- A tour behind the platforms of those strange people
- Destiny smiles, but not on Shmoontsie
- A new leaf, a new life
- Where caste is observed, according to rank and rating
- Equestrian director par excellence
- The awe-inspiring Mr. John
- Calibrating for a career
- Bareback : the aristocrat of circus acts
- A backdoor glimpse of supermen and superwomen
- Elephants are like people
- Engineering the white city
- Finding the lot : a daily headache
- On the sunny side
- Life under the big top : private, social, competitive
- Finale of the season
- Circus experience pays off
- An annual season's opening
- Leitzel, queen of the air : of the ground as well
- Progress, trends, and customs typical of circus folks
- On a magic carpet to a land fantastic
- Back to the material world
- An act is born
- Circus history is made : merging "the Greatest Show on Earth" and "the World's Greatest Show," thereafter to be known as "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows"
- Pride versus virtue
- Misery-like death-knows no class distinction
- Fate follows her course : strange, mysterious, terrifying
- Sarasota : last stop
- An elucidating interlude
- The circus, to date (1948)