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Under the Big Top.(Book Review)
The circus has long been a refuge for society's misfits; for some, it is the inherent danger of the acts that offers a welcome escape from reality. Faith--the heroine of the first novel by the late Amanda Davis, Wonder When You'll Miss Me (William Morrow)--runs away from her high school, her mother, and the police and remakes herself as Annabelle, the elephant-dung mucker for a travelling circus troupe. Psychologically disjointed (she is trailed at all times by her imaginary alter ego), Annabelle seeks solace in acrobatics. "I wanted to tell her about the woman on the trapeze. How I'd held my breath and how my heart had pounded," Davis writes. "How I'd seen a whole world up there in the air, and the one down here had disappeared."
Ascension (Carroll & Graf), a novel by Steve Galloway, focusses on the travails of a wire walker named Salvo Ursari. As a child, ...
- Toothmarks; New fiction.("The Final Confession of Mabel Stark")(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 5, 2003 700+ words
...backwoods of west Kentucky called Mabel Stark. With a flick of her wrist or...maulings. "The Final Confession of Mabel Stark" is not a feat of virtuoso ventriloquism...suit. The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. By Robert Hough.
- Circus act.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) April 5, 2003 700+ words
...visits to the circus while she is in New York to research her next role as tiger trainer Mabel Stark in a film based on the book The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. The actress went backstage at the circus at Madison Square Garden to meet Mark Oliver...
- Showbiz Gossip: Kate could hold the key.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) April 5, 2003 700+ words
...while she is in New York in order to do research for her next role as tiger trainer MABEL STARK in a film based on the book The Final Confession of Mabel Stark. The actress went backstage at the circus at Madison Square Garden to meet Mark Oliver...
- Paperbacks.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) May 7, 2004 700+ words
Byline: GEORGIA METCALFE The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough (Atlantic Books, [pounds sterling]7.99) MABEL STARK was 5ft, an indomitable blonde in a tight white leather catsuit. In her day she was the most famous tiger...
- THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH KICKS OFF 125TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON BECOMING THE...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 3, 1995 700+ words
...The Greatest Show On Earth has played to an estimated half-billion people, and has featured performing legends such as Mabel Stark, the Wallendas, Emmett Kelly, Lou Jacobs, Gunther Gebel-Williams and Clown of Clowns David Larible. It has also been...
- TIGERS ARE TAMED BY COMMANDING VOICE.(Circus)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 6, 1990 700+ words
Gone are the whips, chairs and pistols of yesterday's animal trainer heroes Clyde Beatty and Mabel Stark. In their place, a new hero has emerged. He is a kinder, gentler circus star whose unique mastery over wild animals has dramatically...
- Hollywood will never come before my family; (Says Kate as she works on six...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) April 12, 2005 700+ words
...Juliet. But for an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House she will travel to Norway. And it is thought The Marvellous Mabel Stark, about a woman who trains tigers, will be filmed in Los Angeles. All this from the woman who last June pulled out of a...
- PURSUING 'CATWOMAN' IN ALL HER FORMS.(Living)(Site-seeing)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) July 26, 2004 700+ words
...all cat women fly off the silver screen or leap from the pages of comic books. Some of them just live in the neighborhood. Mabel Stark was a Princeton, Ky., lady who, in the early 1900s, earned the title by becoming "the world's only lady tiger trainer...
