St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-28
TO CARRY SCR. LlBERATI
And His Great Military Band
Of Magnificent Play
erS.
THE GREAT CIRCUS MEN
Keep Right Abreast Of the
Times With Their Great
Shows.

limited scope as the circus; no other
line reaches out in such generally en-
bracing way, and extends its ramifica-
tons not ouly over the five great zones
in search of novelties and wonders, but
reaches into the high places and adds to
itself such glorious attractions as the
circus line.
This is clearly proven by the action of
Ringling Brothers, the proprietors and
managers of the Worlds Greatest
Shows" who have obtained for this
year, and allied to their great shows,
that prince of leaders, Liberatli, and his
magnificent military concert band.
Here is case of progression which
while it is startling step for other
managers to contemplate, is only IN
keeping with the managerial energy
and Quickssghtedness always shown
by these gentlemen, and the very
faculty which accounts for their present
position. and the remarkably rapid
growth of their shows in twelve years
from the smallest imaginable exhibit.
ton to the very largest, grandest and
best amusement enterprise in America.
The alliance Of the great Maestro
Liberati and his superb band of sixty
soloists TO the big show is virtually
adding an entire first-clasS attraction in
itself. Music has no greater master
than this remarkable man. Sunny Italy,
that land of blue skies, sweet songs and
buried empires, never i'll all the broad
range of her art history-and she is
truely the foster mother of the arts
sent forth greater musical genius than
AlieSandro Llberati.
For twenty-five years SCR. Liberati
has been before the American public
either as renowned concert soloist or
great leader; none OF the great musical
festivals of that time, and the period
embraces all the great festivals musical
in nature which we have had, have been
conducted without SCR. Liberati away
up at the head Of the list as Vlrtu6SO or
leader.
Llberati is to music what Grant or
Napoleon was to war, not only a per-
feetly practical master of the art, but
an organizer and disciplinarian of won-
derful ability. A man seemingly born
to command and sway, and, as the or
with mobility wonderful in unanimlty
his mighty hosts, the magic wand Of
Liberati sways like one mighty hartnoni-
Gus unit the sixty selected soloi5tS in
his great band, and carries them with
unsurpassed mastery over the Intricate
concerted pieces to elimination of
musical perfection and grandeur. Sixty
selected soloiSts-more than a half
hundred renowned yirtuOS0S and the
greatest of musical leaderS-iS rather a
''SwelP' musical gathering. as our club
men would say, to add as a feat
ure to shows already remarkable
for their merit and magnitude, and
proves that" Ringing Brothers Worlds
Greatest Shows" mean to be and are all
their name implies. The public will be
certainly very unappreciative if it does
not manifest its pleasure in series of
oVations wherever the great shows eX-
hibit this year. AS a business question
it will be Interesting to watch the effect
Of this Initiative and progressive step
OH the other circus managers of this
country, who find the young giants
forging ahead and RELOCATING Old-time
fOSsillZed ideas to the dim and distant
past. Reference is made to the recep-
ton of this bold stroke by other circus
managers, because its effect upon them
will leave its imprint upon the future
circus attractions in store for the pub
lie and to be diShed Out to it by its
caterers. 1t will not be the first time
nor the tenth time the Ringing brothers
have startled their somewhat myOpic
brother managers and aroused them from
lethargy to put forth better things in
order to be rs close as may be to the
leader, and ali this is for the good of the
public.
1t requires a good deal of business
nerve to add, at the cost OF thousand
dollars per day, great musical feature
to shows which already cost their man
ayers over many thousands of dollars
daily to conduct, and to add this great
feature also as gratuitouS Offering to
| the people; and what is still more re-
markable and comm endable is the fact
| that the great circuseS-nOW the largest
| and best on this continent, which is
| equivalent to saying in the wofld-Will
| not be in the least curtailed because of
| the feature, but, On the contrary, great
| ly added to.
Still, OH the other hand, is it not
! startling to see and contemplate the
| possibility of such progression? If the
| Ringing Brothers keep on for five
| years more. as they have for the past
| lGIl, lllS CliCuS Will NC vi SuCn vast pEO-
| portions that one will be forced to take
| order to fully drink in its many
attractions. Given ten years of
such progression, If combin-
alton of railway and steamboat
magnates will not crush this monopo-
| lizing of home and foreign wonders,
| and one may make tour of the world
in the week it would REQ uire to see the
| great shows in their entirety, so vast
will they have grown in that time. Ii
| is notan unusual stretch of the imagina-
ton to see the neutrality-suspicious. World; S
| Greatest Shows years hence drop into a
! central point in state, and exhibit for
the entire state, running cheap excur-
sions throughout the commonwealth,
and remaining week in order to have
everybody DESTROYS of touring the
world to do so at so cents sectional
| trip.
Now as the shows are organized. one
| may see in single visit to the mighty
| lnenagerie, wild beasts from every
quarter Of the earth. some of them so
| rare as to be the only specimens on eX-
hibitioD. and the whole of them truly
| interesting and strange.
The great hippodrome, which is one
| Of the features Of the shows, serves
with startling accuracy the sports and
pastimes OF ancient Rome.
The 800 performers whoglve in all 100
| circus acts represent in their various
| nationalities every spot and place OIL
earth. and bring into the great city of
tents, in a manner, the spicy breezes of
the tropics and the chilling blows of old
Boreas. The OrientaiS in their unique
garb and, to us, fantastic doings. and
the equatorial freshness of the inhabit-
ants of the belt zone, come with all the
glory of Orient andOceident combined in
both. In every quarter of the great
shows universatility is evident.
Let it keep on; let the circus. the
| menagerie, the hippodrome, the Museum
and the aquarium, and by all means the
glorious street parade, be ten thousand
times intensified and glorifed until
earth, air and water combine to empty
their wonders.
Go forward, Messrs Ringing. Lead
US as Moses led the IsfaeItes into new
land. Carry us within the great car of
progression into new fields of fairytsnd: