Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-09
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ed Barbary horses and their riders is
black and red-brilliant black plush
and silk, with nodding plumes of rich
est red, touched here and there with
| dazzling gold-a combination as beau
tiful as an artists dream. Blended
with the pure white of the Arabians,
whose arched necks and fiery eyes and
sensitive nostrils betray the blue blood
| of their desert lineage, is the most deli
cate blue and white, fiecked with red
| gold-a sunset tint on a background OF
snow. For the cream horses, ana the
famous horsemen and horseWomen,
who ride them, the costuming and trap
pings is u symphony of sea green ana
old gold. So much for the harmony OF
color. The performance itself is even
more Kaleidoscope in it's harmony.
Fifty trumpeters take their positions on
the elevated stages, and as they sound
d crashing fanfare, the curtains part
and the platoons of black. white and
yellow horses appear, directed by their
skilled and gorgeously costumed rid
lers-plumes nodding, ribbons flying
all keeping time to the exhilarating nu-
sic of the trumpeters. Inc music
changes, the color divisions separate
into the several rings, and the only
equine ballet company on earth faces
the fascinated audience. Again the mu-
sic changes, and in accurate time and
STEP the horses move in harmonious
measure thru all the intricate figures
and poses of an deliberately arranged
ballet. To the right, to the left, pr1ouet-
ting, Waiting, marching. now forming
noble statues and again circllngln sWlLl5
test dance step like whirling streams OF
rainbow-color, they constitute spec
tacle so thrilling, so classically harno-
Nous, that the senses seem intoxicated
with a new sense of beauty. A striking
climax is reached when the entire COM
pany of horses advance to the center Of
the rings, and, kneeling, allow their
riders TO dismount. The horses then
simultaneously lie down. moment
later they rise to sitting position, the
riders renount, pages and equerries en-
ter and supply each rider with a gar
land of flowers, and, as the music
changes once more, they enter upon u
series of graceful figures, in which the
earlands, used as floral arches, are
oleverly utilized to form the most eff
fectiye and beautiful pictures-the
whole eliminating in one vast equine
tableau vivant-the most gorgeously
effective arenic spectacle that human
eyes have ever looked upon This great
production will be seen with hundreds
Of other great features when Ringing
Bros famous big circus exhibits In
Marshalltown on Saturday, July 10.
The Holloway Trio of high-wire ac.
robats, who are engaged with Ring
ling Brothers Worlds Greatest Shows
this season, We're the reigning sensa
ltion of London last winter. These great
artists perform acrobatic feats in mid
air, and upon thin wire, that many
clever acrobats hesitate to attempt on
the solid ground. There is no other
act like it in the world.
Thirty great principal and menage
riders are with Ringing Bros circus,
,, which shortly exhibits in this city.
Among the most famous are the Dav-
exports, the Hobsons, Frederick and
Augusta Schadel, Julia Lowande. John
and Michael Rooney, Rhoda Royal,
Madame Royal, Charles Carroll and the
famous prince Of horsemen, John
| O'Brien.
Ringing Brothers great circus rep
resents an invested capital of $780,
00O-more than twice the amount in-
vested in all the other circuses in the