Ancient and Modern
Then came an unusual act entitled Ancient and Modern, at Blackpool Tower Circus. In this Van Buren and Greta acted as old magicians who were constantly interrupted by a young whizz kid illusionist, their son Andrew, on roller skates, unicycle and finally a motorbike—but the old performers finally got the upper hand by making rider and motorcycle vanish completely.
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Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or modern:
“Therefore it was surprising that, as we kept the newspapers from
Mother,
She died feeling responsible for a disaster unverified,
Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan
Noblesse oblige.”
—Josephine Miles (1911–1985)
“I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is city life—with its sofas, hotel corridors, cinemas, underworlds, cardboard suitcases, self-willed buses, banknotes, soapy bathrooms, newspaper-filled parks; and its anguish, its enraged excitement, its great lonely joys.”
—Rosemary Tonks (b. 1932)