The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-09-20
A GORGEOUS SPECTACLE.
Ringing Bros Festival of Olympus,
a Revelation of Classic Splendor.

There is something in human ma
ture which demands light and color.
1t is through the eye that the brain
receives it's strongest impressions.
The beauty that satisfies the vision
elevates the mind. None knew this
better than Caesar, Alexander the
Great and the other great rulers and
captains of ancient times. 1t was at
the time when Greece was at the
pinnacle of her power and Rome
was approaching the climax of her
imperial sway, that the great specta-
cles and feasts of the ancients were
brought to their greatest perfection.
While always partaking in a large
measure of the military character Of
the people, the glare and panoply Of
war was intermingled with the
sumptuous arts of peace, the senti-
ment of a classically poetic age, the
love of luxury, and the semi-barbaric
delight of populace for glittering
display. Perhaps the greatest of all
these spectacles was the Grecian
Festival of Olympus. This superb
display of Hellenic culture and semi
Oriental luxuriousness attracted
thousands of spectators, and invited
the daring skill and emulation of the
greatest athletes and most renowned
devotees of the Olympian games.
The treasure expended in these dis
plays often reached fabulous sums,
and the resources of the entire known
world were utilized to give a GrRo-
Oriental glamor to the spectacle. II
is this gorgeous festival that Ring
ling Brothers, proprietors of the
Worlds Greatest Shows, have pro-
duced as a spectacular Introductory
to their wonderful arenic exhibition.
This superb spectacle enlists the
services of a thousand men, women
and children, and is given upon a
scale of grandeur and completeness
that even classic Athens could not
excel. The immense hippodrome
course, the largest ever constructed
under canvass, is completely filled
with q glowing, irridescent, moving
panorama, in which hundreds of
gorgeousIy caparisoned, prancing
horses, scores of resplendently orna-
mented tableaux, great triumphal
cars, rumbling chariots, waving
banners, solid phalanxes OF glitter
ing-armored warriors. ictors, cen
turians, senators, fair women,
dancing maids, and flower-strewing
children, combine to form a picture
of classic splendor dazzling to the
eyes and beautiful beyond the
dreams of the most prolific imagina-
ton. Notwithstanding the stupen-
dous cost of this brilliantly costumed
spectacle, it is only an incident of
the show-an introduction to the
wonderful feast of arenic novelties
presented in the three rings, upon
two stages, in the immense dome
and upon the great quarter-mile
hippodrome track of this greatest OF
all great shows Three hundred
performers, including the marvellous
Nelson Family Of incompatible aero
bats; an unapproachable menageriei
the greatest of trained animal sensa-
tions, and the most superb daily free
street parade ever given on earth,
are some of the features OF this sup
ePb exhibition, which will exhibit in
this city Friday, September 25.
Reserved seats and admission
tickets on sale at Ross g. BonneriS
drug store without any advance in
prices. Reserved numbered seats
only 2j cents extra.