The Indianapolis journal., 1900-10-03
NO IMMORAL EXHIBITS
THE CARNIVAL TO BE EXEMPT FROM
OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES.
So Says President Parry of the Fail
Festivities Socfety-The Sec
retary's Statement.

1--WE are not going to have any immoral
shows or anything else that is indecent
about the fall carnival so long as l am
connected with it," declared ID. NJ. Parry.
president of the Carnival Association. last
night. 81 think the balance OF the COM
mittee have the same feeling about the
matter that 1 have"
.'It has been intimated that the Oriental
Village, which is TO be one of the enter
tainments in The Magic Circle will con-
tain the dance du ventre. or muscle dance,
as one of its prominent features" was sug-
gested to Mr.. Parry.
There will be nothing of that Sort" he
replied promptly land yet that dance, as
it was given in Cincinnati, did not contain
anything that was immoral. Still. We are
not going to have it. IL anything of that
sort Is to be here / don't know anything
about it,"
''If arrangements have been made with
out your knowledge to have the dance
given in the Oriental Village would you
order it stopped?" Mr.. Parry was asked.
"If it is in any way indecent, yes" he an
swered without hesitation.
Mr. Parry was asked further If it is the
an Oriental village next week. why, you
have got to have an Oriental village" he
said. But, while il is necessary to have
such things, IL is not necessary to have
them of an obscene character or of an in
decent character. / do not think any of the
committee have any inclination to do any
thing of which they will be ashamed. In
fact, il is our greatest desire to have this
thing just right and TO please the people,
SO that we can put the carnival on a per-
manent basis and have 1t every fall in In
dianapolis.'
'The suggestion has been made that the
country people demand something like the
dance du ventre and similar shows" Mr.
Parry was asked MY opinion 1s that the
country people are just as decent as tne
city people or any other class OF people,
he replied 81 was born and raised IN the
country. and know all about the people.
Mr. Parry is sanguine as to the success
of the carnival Everything indicates
wonderful turning out of the people to see
the big show" he said with smile. In
fact, the railroad people are Just h.tle pit
exercised about their ability to handle the
crowd in the Union Depot, and they nave
been making extra preparations for 1t. The
truth Is, that next week Is going to demon
strate beyond cavil that Indianapolis must
have a larger railroad station.
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carnival. was also approached by Journai
man. but did not quite bear out the vlgor-
ous statements and denials made by Presi-
dent Parry.
shows he declared. land no taking OF
any kind The Oriental Theater IN the
carnival will be the same as In every otner
CITY that has had such an afrair-Cincin-
natl, Louisville or Milwaukee. for example
no better and no worse. The dance du
yentre which will be given here Is the same
dance as was patronized by everybody In
Cincinnati-the best people of the city, so
far as I know. i suppose there are people
who object to II. but we can not lasso them
and make them go In to see IL. The same
reople, presume would OBJECT 10 waltz
We found man here VINO wouioh rent @
us ground because we were going TO sell
cigars He objected TO tobacco. There will
be no Objectionable features of any kind
in the carnival We cut out a show that
every other city has had-the Bosco snake
eater a man who eats snakes alive-be-
cause we did not think Ii would be very
elevating. The showmen assured me that
IL would be one OF the best attractions We
fig but ! did not think 1t would be at
tractiye Here is a list Of the entertain
ments we have secured for carnival week.
We will have Lunette or the flying lady,
Minting. the aerial cyclfst, who goes up a
spiral sixty-five feet in the air; Chiquita.
the smallest midget In the world, cine
matograph pictures of the Boer and Chi
nese wars and of the Galveston disaster,
and we will have the German village with
the TyroIeans, the Bostock-Ferrari men
aperie the Oriental Theater and Streets of
Cairo The carnival would not be carni-
val without those things. They have them
i'm every city. II is the greatest, the best
paying attraction there is. There is a
great difference in who dances that muscle
dance. The American women burlesque
it-vulgarize 1t. 1 have never seen an
American woman who could dance 1t as
| Oriental women do.