The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-14
THE BEAUTIFUL ORIENTAL PA
GEANT OF LALLA ROOKH.
Manager FOrePaugh Expends 100000
in Order to Produce IT upon
the Street for q Free
Public show


the Street for q Free
Public Show.
On the murning of Monday next,
September IS. in addition to many other
| sensational features, there will be pre-
sented in the Great Forepaugh Show
Parade, beautiful and realistic repre-
senlation of the oriental pageant illus
trating the departure of Lalla Rookh
from Delhi.
The great Snowman, Forepaugh, ex-
pended 100000 in order TO incorporate
this spectacular feature in his princely
street parade. There will be represent
| ed in truly Eastern magnificence, re
spiendent beauty and loneliness, the de-
parIure OF Lalla Rookh from Delhi for
Cashmere.
who mas not heard of the Vale of C..sh-
mere,
With Its roses. the brightest that earth
ever gave;
It's temples and srot,ocs, and fountains as
clear
AS the Iove-!ighted eye that hang over
their wavesY'
All The scenes oforiental magnificence
and grandeur recited by the immortal
author of Lalla Rookn, are depicted in
this sublime and beautiful pageant, pre-
cisely as described by him. In response
TO advertisements in the leading journ-
ais in the principal cities of the United
States, and tor a princely salary. the
lOvcliest lady in the land has been Sc
cured to personify the beautiful Eastern
princess, Lalla Rookh, whom the poet
describes as "mnre beautiful than any
of the herOines whose names and loves
embellish the songs of Persia and Hin
doostan; more perfect than the dlvinest
images of the House of Azor" In this
gorgeous, glittering, oriental pageant,
Lalla Rookh is seen reclining in her
sumptuous howdah, borne aloft on the
back ola pOnderous and kingly elephant,
the largest on this conti1ent, whose en-
/ broidered velvet irappings touch the
ground; fair young female slave sits
| tanning the princess through the rose
| colored wells, with feathers of argus
| pheasapt's wings, and the lovely troop
of Tartarian and Cashmerean maids of
honor ride ON each side of the princess
upon small Arabian horses. Raiahs
and mogul lords follow, accompanied
by cavaliers in costly armor, mounted on
''steeds with their housings OF rich silver
spun,
Their chains anei l'oitre,s giittering in the
And cameIs. tufi Ell DER with Yen.en's shells,
Shaking in every breeze their light-toned
belis.''
In keeping with The author of Lalla
ROokh's description If this grand, gilt
teriRg, lsylsh aud luxurious spectacle
are seen the guards of the great Kedar
Khan, with their silver battle axes aud
maces of gold, followed by the great
Nazir, or chamberlain of the harem,
and the retinue of the court of Delhi
mounted upon elephants. carhels and
Arabian horses, decorate with oriental
trappings aud bearing qloft the royal
standards, the ep;ire scene recalling to
the beholder the glories and the gran,
deur of the distant ind es, the niysteri
GUS land of the Vedas, the parent Of tho
modern world, where
= The gorgeous east. with richest
hand.
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and
gold.''
the whole forming them magnificent
picturesque and realistic oriental spec
ticle ever presented In the New World
This constitutes, but single feature II
the grand procession of the great show
M0le than a mile of chariois. twenty
elephants, hundreds of horses, musica
bands, mardi- gras masquerades and {
world af famous features make up THU
grand parade.