Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-06-07
JOHN ROBINSON'S SHOW.
The Amusement GoIcOnda Of the
Period.

More than seventy years of contin-
uous ovation has characterized the
career of the John Robinson show,
which this season is reaching the proud
elimination of its triumphs No other
show in existence can display so con
tinuous and so clear a record. From
the cold waters of the Kennebec to the
shores of the Pacific, from the north
eru boundaries of civilization to the
southern limits If this continent for
more than one generation has the name
of John Robinson been Il household
word, and the coming of the always un-
exceptiouable exhibitiOnal enterprises
that bear his name Is ever greeted with
a hearty welcome. From the genesis
of the show until its present colossal
perfection, there has not been a solitary
season in which it has not led its fellows
i'll the multiplicity and general excel
lence of its attractions, and now it
towers above and dwarfs all cotempor-
aneous tented exhibitions into com
parative insignihcance, and this season
il presents such an opulence of sterling
and meritOriOus attractions as to truly
entitle it TO be designated as a vast
Amusement GOlcOnda whose wondrous
wealth of entertainment is unlimited
work of supererogation to say that his
circus has always been the best and
biggest. ALWAYS in the van, always
prolific in leading aud sensational fea-
lures, and always fully equipped with
the finest stud of horses and the most
skillful and finished bareback riders,
gymnasts and acrobats in the profes-
sion; that his large, well-ordered 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 Roman Hippodrome is vivid and
realistic reproduction of that of the days
of imperial Caesar
1t may be said, however, that to these
always prominent and desirable attrac-
tions has been added, for the current
season, a feature so stupendous in mag
nitude, so overpowering in unprecedent-
ed grandeur and impressiveness, and so
enormous in the expense necessary to
its production, that the features men
toned, grand and multifarious as they
are, can at best play but a secondary
part. The grand biblical historical,
sceneographic, lyric, terpSichorean and
pantomimic spectacle of Solomon, his
Temple, and the Queen of Sheba.
Is thus alluded TO: A tranScendently
impressive and eminently moral and
mind -elevating pageantic and scenic
production, from the fertile brain of Mr.
John Rettig, the protector and creator
of Rome under Nero" The Fall of
Babylon" "Montezuma' and Bond
age in Egypt, noted spectacles
which been annually produced under
the auspices of the Order Of Cincin-
natus, and which have becom famous
throughout the length and breadth Of
the land. To claim that Solomon,
his Temple and the Queen of Sheba'
is the masterpiece of this brilliant
artist is not transcending the limits of
veracity. There is not a sensual, Ibid
inous 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 news
paper notice prevent mention in detail
of the manifold characteristics and ex-
cellencies of this gorgeous and imposing
spectacle, but the reader will find ex-
haustive description in the bills, circu-
lars and advertisements disseminated
broadcast by the management.
The Robinson show will exhibit at
Butler, Saturday, June 16.