The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
JOHN RoB1NsoN's SHOW
The Amusement Golconda of the
Period

More than seventy years of continuous
ovation has characterized the career of the
John Robinson show, which this season is
reaching the proud elimination of it's tri-
umphs. No other show in existence can
display so continuous and so clear a record.
From the cold waters of the Kennebec to
the shores of the Pacific, from the north
ern boundaries of civilization to the south
ern limits of this continent, for more than
one generation has the name of John Rib
inson been a houshold word, and the COM
ing of the always unexceptionable exhibit
tional enterprises that bear his name is
ever greeted with hearty welcome. From
the genesis of the show until its present
colossal perfection, there has not been
solitary season in which 1t has led its fell
lows in the multiplicity and general excel
lence of its attractions, and now it towers
above and dwarfs all cotemporaneous tent
ed exhibitions into comparative insignii-
canoe, and this season it presents such an
opulence of sterling and merltorious at
fractions as to truly entitle 1t to be desg-
mated as vast Amusement Golconda
whose wondrous wealth of entertainment
is unlimited and Unreasonable. 1t is mere
ly work of supererogati ton to say that his
circus has always been the best and big
gest, always in the van, always prolific in
leading and sensational features, and al
ways fully equipped with the finest STUD of
horses and the most skilful and finished
in the profession: that his large, well-or-
dered and well-selected menagerie contains
living, vigorous specimens of all That Is
strange, rare and curious within the range
of natural history, and that his royal Ro-
man hippodrome is a vivid and realistic re-
production of that of the days of imperial
Caesar.
Tt may be said, however, that to these
always prominent and desirable attractions
has been added, for the current season, a
feature so stupendous in magnitude, so
overpowering in unprecedented grandeur
and impressiveness, and so enormous in the
expense necessary to its production, that
the features mentioned, grand and multi
farous as they are, can at best play but a
secondary part. The grand biblical, histor-
ical sceneographic, lyric, terpsichorean
and pantomimic spectacle of Solomon, his
Temple. and the Queen of Sheba,' is thus
alluded to: transcendently impressive
and eminently moral and Misunderstanding
pageantic and scenic production, from the
fertile brain of Mr. John Rettig, the pro-
jector and creator of Rome under Nero,
1.-THE Fall of Babylon" "Montezuma" and
sfBondape in Egypt" noted spectacles
which have been annually produced under
the auspices of the Order of Cincinnatus,
and which have become famous through
out the length and breath of the land To
claim that Solomon, his Temple, and the
Queen of Sheba' is the masterpiece of TINS
brilliant artist is not transeending the linn
its of veracity. There is not sensual
lbidinous nor lascivious scene, act or
thought in the spectacle, and every thing
in the entire presentation is holy, chaste
and pure The limits of a newspaper notice
prevent mention in detail of the manifold
characteristics and excellencies of this Sor-
geous and imposing spectacle, but the read
er will find exhaustive description in the
bills circulars and advertisements dissem-
mated broadcast by the management.
The Robinson show will exhibit at Biz
mingham on October 26.