The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-25
-In- NezV York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York-Five circus press agents, strangely quiet, sat about hotel room. Dexter Fellows, for 70 years a neologist extraordinary of glittering superlatives, gnawed his gray mustache uncasily. Roland Butler, G. F. A. General Press Agent, or Grand Purveyor of Ad- 1 jectives), chewed a pencil and nut tered over an advertisement he was trying to write.
 Ora Parks, over in a corner, broke his moody silence: "Of course me must admit it's unquestionably a brilliant idea, superbly and in- genlously conceived"
 Sure" said dapper Frank Brad en. '"The idea is practically Brobg dingnagian. A Gargantan inspira- ton, in fact, well calculated to in- spire amazement and" However broke in William | Wilken," it's too bad 1t had to come just as the mightiest and most preponderant aggregation of wonders and features ever known | in circus history has been com pounded into a massive entity in commemoration of the glittering golden jubilee of the greatest show on earth"
 | GentlemeH, Sdlu MT ccuoWss "Remember that a representative of the press Is present. l think the unprecedented contingency confronting Us provides noteworthy | memorabilia for a newspaper story
 "A story!' exclaimed MT Parks. Colossal! Magnif-"
 "Stupendous," chimed in Mir. Butler, almost swallowing his pen- l ell. Anomalous; unique! A cir- GUS story never before printed iS any newspaper"
 "Tn Other Words, Sir"
 Well, sir you have seen our gilt tering galaxy" continued Mir But Ter. "You have realized that this year the show has assumed pro- portions and an impressive grand eur too staggering for the human mind to enumerate or contemplate. We have things just as protolithic, and even more macrObian-' | Hey, I thought up that linc," pouted MT Fellows. Also the one about the convulsing attitudinari- anisms of our assemblagc of clowns"
 "What MT Butler was trying to say" supplemented MT Bradcn, | "is that never before have we pub Iicity men had justiiiablc occasion to employ such glowing and super Iative terms in describing tho pompous panoramic display and the subsequent gigantic array of multiple arenic marvels. Why. we have"
 And of course you realize" MT Parks interposed, "the glam- x,tr Apa af-t tgtt tr fp and publicity have played in tho past--the wcll-rounded descriptive phrases, the magnihcently tran splcndcnt posters. Naturally we
 have considered ourselves masters
 of our craft. And now--'' | And now" MT Butler car-
 ried on, "Mr Samuel Gompertz,
 new manager of the company, has issued an order against all of our multi-syllabic words. Circus press
 agentry, sir, stands bcrcft of its
 timc- honored superlatives. MT
 Gumpertz seems to have taken cx-
 ception to such phrases as 'pere-
 grinates it's proudful paths, pre-
 senting q preponderance of vastid-
 ities,' and an opulent exposition
 of Oriental panoply.'
 "Mr GumpertZ believes that some of these terms may not
 be universally comprehended. He
 believes our work will be more ef-
 fectiye If we stick to 1ingarnished
 facts.
 "So from now on. in describing
 our riotous, avalanche of bowling
 hilarity we will mention only a
 troupe of funny clowns Our infin-
 itude of dazzling arenic marvels
 henceforth will be known simply as
 twenty-onc acts You get the idea
 -an amazing and sensational dar-
 ing stand for unmitigatcd veracity
 and inornate expression. Why, it's
 stupendous"
 "Colossal!" echoed Messrs Bra den, Parks, Fellows and Wilken.