In 1834, teenager Afong Moy became the first known Chinese woman to come to the United States, where she was displayed as a kind of side show attraction by two American businessman trying to promote ...
LIFE’S A CIRCUS—Lady Eleanor Smith —Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Born “dead” and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a “cottagy” house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith ...
Increasingly known throughout the United States and abroad, the “Circus Lady” — the founder, executive and artistic director of St. Louis, Mo.-based Circus Harmony — “has a long history of building ...