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	Sideshow-Art.com -- Charles B. Tripp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Of all the armless wonders, Tripp was the best known and was on exhibition the longest.
		He fascinated audiences for over fifty years with his penmanship by holding a pen between his toes and was an accomplished wood carver and cabinet maker.
		This poster has been created from a 1884 cabinet card photograph by Morris was sold by "The Armless Wonder", offset printed in full color with a dark maroon silk-screened border on heavy cover stock, 17" x 22".
	www.sideshow-art.com /charles_b_tripp.html (158 words)

	The Unknown (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SYNOPSIS: Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter.
		She feels quite comfortable around the "armless" Alonzo, while she is repelled by the virile strongman, Malabar.
		Chaney really gives a marvelous idea of the Armless Wonder, for to act in this film he has learned to use his feet as hands when eating, drinking and smoking.
	members.aol.com /ChaneyFan/147.htm (820 words)

	Entertainment
		Commonly referred to as a piece of "automata" this marvelous mechanical wonder is perfect for the drawing room or parlor.
		One with sufficient capital would be foolish to pass up such a remarkable opportunity (not only to witness such a wonderful performance, but to impress guests as well).
		The sheer contrast of nature's whims represented by these two distinct and unique characters should be enough to inspire wonder in even the most calculating man of science.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/ye_olde_bay/entertainment.html (2503 words)

	Shocked and Amazed - On and Off the Midway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ARMLESS WONDER - A performer without arms, usually doing his or her stage act using just the feet and mouth.
		Pictorials on canvas hung in front of circus side shows and carnival midway shows depicting the wonders to be found inside.
		CABINETS OF WONDER - The English translation of kunstkammer and wunderkammer, the cabinets of curiosities and wonders that evolved into the dime museums of the 19th Century.
	www.atomicbooks.com /43/shocked/lingo.html (6393 words)

	Elephant Man Screenplay
		Treves, his eyes wide with horror and wonder, his mouth frozen open, steps backward in an instinctive movement of self preservation.
		The Elephant Man is naked to the waist, his feet are bare and he wears a pair of worn trousers from a fat man's dress suit.
		But Anne goes on, as Treves, in wonder, watches her and Merrick locked together in the communication of intense sympathy.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Guild/2057/lynch/elephantman.html (18609 words)

	DHM: Library - Zip, The ‘What Is It?’ Plays Host to All The Other Circus Freaks (Document)
		It's seldom that an ordinary person dines with an armless woman, a sword swallower, a snake enchantress, a German giantess, a tattooed man, and Indian chief, a living skeleton, a 600-pound woman, two Lilliputians, a Somali warrior and the only "What Is It?" in captivity.
		Perhaps it's the infrequency of such meals that makes a guest shudder when the snake charmer's nine-foot python sticks his nose two or three feet out of the punch bowl he's nestling in and tickles the guest behind the ear.
		Maxine and Running Jump had tangoed, and Senorita Marie, the armless woman, and Djamah Ali, the Somali chief, had tangoed together too.
	www.disabilitymuseum.org /lib/docs/2095.htm (444 words)

	Freaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film also stars Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, and Earles' real life sister Daisy Earles.
		Among the characters featured as "freaks" were the Hilton twins, a pair of female conjoined twins, and the armless wonder, Frances O'Connor.
		There were several microcephiles who were referred to in the film as "pinheads".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freaks (554 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Lon Chaney, Sr. -- Supermasochist!
		He made his first films in the mid-1910s, and by 1920 he was already creating roles that required him to be armless, legless, crippled, or otherwise deformed.
		This is not to say the actor was simply the armless/legless wonder of the movies; he was also a brilliant actor, his early (forced) "training" in a family of invalids paying off in a series of vivid characterizations.
		This daring film, yanked from circulation shortly after its release, uses authentic pinheads, basket cases, legless and armless men and women, bearded ladies, hermaphrodites, siamese twins, and midgets to tell a melodramatic story of the clash between the immoral "normals" and the trusting, childlike, but ultimately powerful freaks.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /15/chaney.html (1043 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE HUM BUG by Harold Schechter
		The Bearded Lady, the Alligator Boy, the Half-Man, the Armless Wonder, Slim Jim McCormack, to name but a few.
		The artful Phineas T. employs these "human curiosities" in and out of his business, keeping them in sight throughout the story and keeping the reader watching the show through the clever descriptions concocted by the author.
		The glib businessman is a wonderful foil for the macabre poet.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0671041150.asp (571 words)

	Film Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As much a casebook as a horror movie, it tells the truly marvellous tale of Alonzo the Armless Wonder (Chaney, of course), who uses his feet to perform a circus knife-throwing act.
		Only masquerading as armless (wanted by the police for a strangling, he’s concealing the tell-tale evidence of a hand with two thumbs), he falls for pretty Estrellita (Crawford), the bareback rider.
		But she has a trauma about being touched by men, so he besottenly decides to have his arms amputated, only to find a handsome strongman emerging as a successful rival for her heart cue for a fiendishly vengeful Grand Guignol finale staged during the strong man’s act.
	www.enzedff.co.nz /filmsynopsis.asp?FilmID=1554&Archive=0&RegionID=2&EventID=7 (202 words)

	Bodybuilding.com - Big Cat - I.C.E. Program #12 - Training The Biceps!
		So stay strict, but ask some of the old pros who did this, this is one of the few exercises that really hits the upper biceps.
		Naturally you are wondering if you have great outer and upper biceps, how do you isolate the brachialis, because that looks good on anyone.
		A gap between bi's and elbows may lead to nicknames as the armless wonder and so on.
	bodybuilding.com /fun/ice12.htm (4102 words)

	Coney - Freaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It didn't matter if they were dwarfs, giants, ugly, amazingly obese, had three legs, no arms or legs; the public would pay money to stare at them and gaze in awe.
		Featured were Lionel - the dog faced boy from Europe; an armless French woman who does wonders with her feet and toes; two men over 8 feet tall, a man who weighted 804 pounds.
		In 1955 David Rosen was still operating Wonderland Circus and Palace of Wonders.
	naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /coneyisland/articles/freaks.htm (3275 words)

	Prodigies by James G. Mundie - Ray Myers, Armless Musician
		In 1937, Loye heard "The Armless Wonder" play and hired him to perform with him on WWVA.
		That gig introduced Myers to a larger country music audience, and Myers was soon playing on radio stations across the southern United States.
		Myers is further described as "The Armless Musician Who Leads Normal Life." Ray Myers died in Gordonville, Pennsylvania, in May 1986.
	www.missioncreep.com /mundie/gallery/gallery15.htm (599 words)

	village voice > nyclife > Fashion Forward by Corina Zappia
		Curious, then, that some of our more popular retail chains—Club Monaco, Zara—are marketing the armless wonder this season.
		Admittedly, less heroism is needed to don this version, as it cleaves more to a safer 1950s incarnation than any favored by Dracula or Space Ghost.
		Its armless status still poses a problem, though.
	www.villagevoice.com /nyclife/0540,zappia2,68474,15.html (392 words)

	1115.org - West Coast Cap Peelers » 2005 » March » 28 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is the armless, legless wonder of the twentieth century.
		For years, we have admired the Republicans for being able to hold together a strong coalition of seemingly-disparate elements: states-rights advocates, libertarians, religious conservatives, chest-beating war enthusiasts and pro-business groups.
		It’s a delicate balancing act, and one wonders how they will manage to keep it going when the religious types start re-writing the party in their own image.
	www.1115.org /2005/03/28 (2146 words)

	Sideshow! Carnival Oddities and Illusions; Investigative Files (Skeptical Briefs December 1999)
		A second subclass of the "born" oddity is what is known in carny parlance as the "anatomical wonder," that is, "a sideshow performer, usually perceived as a human oddity, but more a working act" (Taylor 1997, 91).
		Other anatomical wonders would include "Popeye, the Man with the Elastic Eyeballs," who could cause one or both of his eyes to protrude to an incredible degree.
		Charles Tripp, "The Armless Wonder," teamed up with Eli Bowen, "the Legless Wonder," to perform amusing stunts like riding a bicycle built for two (Drimmer 1991, 87-93; Johnson, Secreto, and Varndell 1996, 48).
	www.csicop.org /sb/9912/i-files.html (3070 words)

	Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By freaks, of course, the film means those born with physical deficiencies that render them so bizarre or frightening in appearance that they often could find no other job except as sideshow entertainers.
		In today’s politically correct world this is certainly not the case, but in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, such sideshows were all the rage: People would come in flocks to gawk at the likes of the half-woman-half-man, Siamese twins, the Armless Wonder, and midgets and little people of varying height and deformities.
		Because these misfits are such social outcasts literally confined to the circus, they must find solace and friendship with each other.
	uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/freaks.htm (863 words)

	altpick*com :: Artist spotlight - Dane LaChiusa
		When illustrator Alonzo, the armless wonder, AKA Dane LaChiusa, calls his home-studio in Sunnyside, Queens "faux suburban," he must be referring to the inside-outside dichotomy: One approaches the place via tree- and duplex-lined streets but soon is greeted by an intrepid poodle named Nicki Monroe and escorted into what looks like a carnival.
		Disembodied mannequin heads draped with gold streamers guard one end of the light-filled space, as LaChiusa sits on brightly colored, modular furniture on the other.
		It was after my father died, and yet it was such a connection with him, a guy who was such a wonderful painter.
	altpick.com /spot/lachiusa/index.php (1006 words)

	Fairfield County Weekly: Saving the Sideshow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Freaks, crawling armless and legless on the ground, knives clenched in their teeth, will put an end to the cruel laughter of the normals.
		While audiences may have been startled by Browning's demented drama and while the film, for its shocking content, was banned in England for 30 years and relegated to indie movie houses in America by a shamed MGM, what
		"The Siamese twins are engaged, the bearded lady has a baby, the armless woman does the laundry with her feet.
	www.fairfieldweekly.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:85768 (1704 words)

	The Unknown (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Plot Summary: Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades....
		This is a truly spellbinding movie, one of the more bizarre you are likely to see.
		With Lon Chaney hiding from the law pretending to be an armless circus performer.
	italian.imdb.com /title/tt0018528 (341 words)

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		Martha Morris, the Armless Wonder from Chicago, not only lacked arms but had shortened legs.
		Like many armless people, Martha was superbly adapted and able to perform tasks with her feet that most people perform with their hands.
		Martha appears briefly in the film Freaks, as the wife of the dwarf Angeleno.
	phreeque.tripod.com /martha_morris.html (60 words)

	Freaks of Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Martha the Armless Wonder Zip and Pip Prince Randian
		Billed as the "Armless Wonder", Martha Morris, like most other armless people, could display amazing dexterity including the ability to eat, drink and write using her feet.
		Jennie Lee and Elvira Snow, also known as "The Snow Twins", suffered from microcephaly, characterised by abnormally small craniums which gave rise at the time to the term "pinhead".
	www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk /freaksnattxt.htm (2330 words)

	Northwestern University News Release
		Lon Chaney is Alonzo the Armless Wonder, a circus performer who throws knives with his feet.
		Only masquerading as armless, Alonzo becomes desperate to win the affection of the bareback rider Estrellita (Joan Crawford), who shivers at the thought of being touched by a man’s hands.
		Alonzo decides to get his arms amputated, only to find the circus strong man is a successful rival for Estrellita’s affection.
	www.northwestern.edu /univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2003_05/junefilm_text.html (1077 words)

	JS Online: 'Sideshow' raises the curtain on 'curiosities'
		They proposed that Barnum form his own circus.
		Barnum had already exhibited "living wonders" at his American Museum in New York.
		The book quotes Charles Tripp, "The Armless Wonder," who said in 1903: "We are all ladies and gentlemen and we act so.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/nov05/371640.asp?source=tmj4 (838 words)

	Table of contents for Secrets of the sideshows
		There you may see an anatomical wonder or a snake charmer, while the bally talker (not a "barker") skillfully turns the tip.
		Inside, you will meet the lecturer (still not a "barker"), who will introduce you to such wonders as Spidora, encourage you to buy a pitch card from an alligator boy, and send you to the blowoff wondering if the pickled punks there are really gaffed.
		You will meet many of the showmen and especially the human oddities and other remarkable performers, even peeking behind the curtains at their often equally remarkable personal lives.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007624.html (1678 words)

	Prodigies by James G. Mundie - Site map
		Introducing a Wonder of the Age: Prodigies - brought forth for your Edification and Amusement from the hand of James G. Mundie.
		Sells-Floto Circus - 1930 - Koo-Koo the Bird Girl and Frances O'Connor, Armless Wonder, on the bally
		Ray R. Myers - The Armless Musician - The Armless Wonder
	www.missioncreep.com /mundie/images/sitemap.htm (841 words)

	Variety.com - World of Mirth
		Perhaps the same one where they pay $50 to witness the mixture of antiquated melodrama and pseudo-profundity that is "World of Mirth."
		The death of Frogboy, the armless, legless wonder who offed himself just after being fired from the sideshow, is the outrage against humanity that has apparently touched the cynical heart of Sweeney (Mark Johannes), the star of the clown dunk attraction.
		Perhaps not a barrel of fun at the best of times, Sweeney now sits in his cage unrelentingly spewing bile and bitterness at his co-workers.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=print_story&articleid=ve1117798341&categoryid=-1 (522 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Unknown : Plot
		As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work of either man, though each film definitely has its moments.
		Chaney plays a carnival performer known as the "Armless Wonder," who performs near-miraculous stunts with his bare feet.
		Upon returning to the carnival, the now-genuinely armless Chaney learns to his horror that Crawford has overcome her aberration of being touched, thanks to handsome circus strong man Norman Kerry.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/36968/plot.jhtml (251 words)

	A Silent Summer Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The film was recently found in a film lab in the south of France and has been digitally restored with a new music score.
		The Unknown (1927; 9:15pm, 2:45am) Directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney and a young Joan Crawford, this bizarre tale is about a circus character known as "the armless wonder", who falls in love with a gypsy.
		TCM is proud to present a newly commissioned score performed by The Alloy Orchestra, a three-man musical ensemble from Boston that creates a unique style of music for silent films.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/9706/summer.htm (231 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But the armless (and also unarmed!) man pecks logic nonetheless and insists on an audition under the Disabled Citizens Act.
		So Quasimodo takes him to the bell tower and the armless wonder races up the stairs to the bell loft, old Quasimodo huffing and puffing after him [no, dear friends, he is not the Big Bad Wolf, just an old hunchback].
		I will be your apprentice in my brother's stead." Quasimodo is understandably loath to deal further with this absurd family, but armless man II argues forcibly, repeating frequently the word "honor," which, to the French, is sacred.
	humor.catweasel.org /Site0/Txt/9506030.txt (3167 words)

	unknown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The tale concerns an armless fakir in a gypsy circus who loves the proprietor's daughter.
		The girl has come to detest all men for their constant pawing, hence the welcome companionship of Alonzo (Chaney).
		From Now Playing: A Viewer's Guide to Turner Classic Movies: "Directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney and a young Joan Crawford, this bizarre tale is about a circus character known as 'the armless wonder,' who falls in love with a gypsy.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/u/unknown.html (229 words)

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