Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, " I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me ," and his personal aims were " to put money in his own coffers.

Barnum described his hoaxes and justified the act of perpetrating them by saying they were " advertisements to draw attention ... to the Museum.

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The rest of Boetticher's output since 1960 consists of the rarely seen A Time for Dying ( a collaboration with Audie Murphy released in 1971 ), the story for Don Siegel's Two Mules for Sister Sara ( 1970 ), the documentary My Kingdom For ... ( 1985 ) and his appearance as a judge in Robert Towne's Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ), and he was still actively attempting to get his screenplay " A Horse for Mr. Barnum " made, before his death in 2001.

Barnum Award for Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity: The Terror of Tiny Town, a Western film with an all-dwarf cast.

In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus ' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 carloads of equipment and tents.

In 1952, Time magazine called it a " mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille " as well as a film that " fills the screen with pageants and parades finds a spot for 60-odd circus acts " with a plot that " does not quite hold all this pageantry together.

From 1942 – 1956 Kelly performed with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, where he was a major attraction, though he took the 1956 season off to perform as the mascot for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and Disney on Ice will relocate to Barclays Center when it opens in 2012, leaving the Garden with at least nine open dates.

P. T. Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts College, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History was constructed in 1884 with funds donated by him to house his collection of animal specimens and the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant, who would become the university's mascot.

For the rest of the century the twins enjoyed a successful career as " The Two-Headed Nightingale " and appeared with the Barnum Circus.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

* Len Barnum ( 1912 – 1998 ), former NFL player with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.

Barnum Island has its own fire district, but is under contract with the Island Park Fire Department for emergency services.

Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft ( based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia ) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum!

The tale of P. T. Barnum: secret agent saw the celebrated showman saving the life of President Grover Cleveland and ( with his circus charges, including original siamese twins Chang and Eng ) and matching wits against the " evil " Nikola Tesla.

Another nephew, Fred Harrison Bailey, recognized a potential circus talent in James Anthony McGuiness, later James Anthony Bailey, who united the Cooper and Bailey with Phineas Taylor Barnum's circus to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus, which later joined with the Ringling Brothers Circus to form the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Barnum again ) with Adolphe Menjou

" Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase " There's a sucker born every minute.

With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution over slavery and African-American suffrage, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, " A human soul, ‘ that God has created and Christ died for ,’ is not to be trifled with.

In 1835 he began as a showman with his purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman, Joice Heth, claimed by Barnum to have been George Washington's nurse, and to be over 160 years old.

In 1842, Barnum introduced his first major hoax, a creature with the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish, known as the " Feejee " mermaid.

Barnum followed that with the exhibition of Charles Stratton, the dwarf " General Tom Thumb " (" the Smallest Person that ever Walked Alone ") who was then four years of age but was stated to be 11.

** Barnum – Book by Mark Bramble, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Michael Stewart.

Barnum is a musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman.

The London cast album " Michael Crawford in Barnum " was released on January 1, 1994 by Musicrama, Inc.

** Barnum – Cy Coleman ( music ) and Michael Stewart ( lyrics )

Among the foremost of the Chicago industrialists, lawyers, financiers, and merchants were John Villiers Farwell, Edmund Dick Taylor, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, Charles Gray, Marshall Field, Richard Teller Crane, Martin Ryerson, John Jacob Glessner, Jacob Bunn, John Whitfield Bunn, John Graves Shedd, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Edward Avery Shedd, Charles Banks Shedd, Leander McCormick, Stanley Field, Charles Deering, James Deering, Robert Law, Francis Peabody, Leonard Richardson, Milo Barnum Richardson, Joseph Edward Otis, Frank Hatch Jones, Arthur Jerome Eddy, Arthur J. Caton, Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, Ezra Butler McCagg, Julius Rosenwald, Morris Selz, Harry Selz, William McCormick Blair, William Douglas Richardson, Charles Farwell, James Monroe Stryker and John Stryker of the Bunn-Richardson-Stryker-Taylor family ( See: John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn ), Samuel Insull, Max Adler, Lucius Fisher, Lucius Teeter, John Peter Altgeld, Walter Gurnee, Philip Danforth Armour, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Michael Morris, Jacob Best, Jonathan Y. Scammon, and many others.

On July 14, Harlem taxidermist and Barnum and Bailey lion tamer Michael Schleisser caught a 7. 5 foot ( 2. 3 m ), 325 pound ( 147 kg ) shark while fishing in Raritan Bay only a few miles from the mouth of Matawan Creek.

As author, his work includes the 1980 musical Barnum, which introduced Glenn Close as a musical theatre actress, with songs by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart.

Crawford also found it difficult to break out of the public association with the role, despite his later career as a hugely successful musical performer on the West End and Broadway stage, in popular shows such as Barnum and The Phantom of the Opera.

Some of Joseph's inventions were quite important, including an early internal-combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the " Whirlwind of Death ", an automotive loop-the-loop that was quite a success until a fatal accident at the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1903.

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

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* P. T. Barnum ( 1810 – 1891 ) was born in Bethel at 55 Greenwood Avenue.

Barnum died in his sleep at home on April 7, 1891 and was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a cemetery he designed.

Barnum was adept at arithmetic but hated physical work.

The tour began with a concert at Castle Garden on September 11, 1850 and was a major success, recouping Barnum four times his investment.

Lind gave 93 concerts in America for Barnum, earning her about $ 350, 000 ; Barnum netted at least $ 500, 000.

In 1862, he discovered the giantess Anna Swan and Commodore Nutt, a new Tom Thumb, who with Barnum visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.

Barnum re-established the Museum at another location in New York City, but this too was destroyed by fire in March 1868.

Barnum once wrote to Bailey, “ I try to impress on the public that we are prepared to keep the show at the top of the heap for generations to come …” ( Saxon 298 ).

In 2008, Malkovich portrayed the story of Jack Unterweger in a performance for one actor, two sopranos, and period orchestra entitled Seduction and Despair, which premiered at Barnum Hall in Santa Monica, CA.

) In New York, Barnum exhibited the elephant at Madison Square Garden, earning enough from the enormous crowds to recoup the money he spent to buy the animal ..

In 1889, Barnum donated the stuffed Jumbo to Tufts University, where it was displayed at P. T.

In 1850, Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum.

He later moved to the Phoenix Works at Cliffe Vale, where electrical and railway equipment was manufactured and where specialist railway carriages and wagons were built for use by the Barnum & Bailey Circus, ( see Phineas Taylor Barnum ) during its tour of Britain and Europe which began in 1886.

The pallbearers at her funeral included P. T. Barnum and Horace Greeley.

In 1884, five of the seven Ringling brothers had started a small circus about the same time that Barnum & Bailey were at the peak of their popularity.

He studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida, and briefly worked as a clown in a travelling circus.

From 1966 until 1999, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus visited the Cow Palace, joined in later years by what is now Disney on Ice ; both events are now held at Oracle Arena.

The writer stated that Barnum had managed the dancer since 1840, when he had disguised the boy as a white minstrel performer — by making him up in blackface — and put him on at the New York Vauxhall Gardens.