AMUSEMENTS: Big-Top Business

George W. Smith could tell most war producers a thing or two about a business man's problems in wartime. As general manager of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, he has to feed, house, trans port, costume and otherwise provide for "the greatest show on earth" — without benefit of any priorities whatsoever. But last week as the Big Show boomed into its second jampacked week at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (prospective gross for the 36-day run: almost $2,000,000), George Smith was calm & collected in the midst of his bedlam....

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