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This wasn't a thunderstorm. It was a tornado which lifted up the circus tent from the ground, and then deposited it on the people sitting inside. It resembled the climax of "The Greatest Show on Earth". It seemed to belong in a movie, except it was reality. There was no warning, nor any...

We can wax nostalgic about tent circuses--I especially loved the midways, with the aroma of spun sugar, the dulcet tones of barkers pitching freak shows, and the screams from spook rides--but they could be very dangerous. When I was six, we went to a tent circus in a field by Lake Onondaga in...

Finally! I saw this movie in 1960, at the Franklin Theater in Syracuse, NY, on a double bill with "The Tingler". The "Tingler was the main feature, and I was about to leave, when without prior announcement, "The Greatest Show on Earth" started. I don't recall the DeMille film listed on the...