The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-10-27
FOREPAUGH & SELLS BROS. SHOW.
A Great Show of Great Features
Some Amazing Attractions This
Popular Aggregation Has Been Ad.
dino

TOpuIdT AxSTeSdtIOn mas been Al.
ding.
Judging from the testimony of the eve. the
great Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers
Enormous Shows United, which are to visit
Henderson on Saturday, November 9Th is
the most strongly, extensively and striking
ly heraided enterprises in the world and
measured by the quantity and quality of it's
announcements, it has to be. 1t seems small
wonder that such an aggregation of rare
wild beasts. arenc celebrities and educated
animals should have broken all previous rec
ords in Madison Square Garden, New York
City, as 1t did. This is the 33d year of con
tinuous management by those who directly
control it, and that they have thoroughly
learned what the masses long and look for
in tent entertainment, is apparent Their
policy of continually adding the newest and
greatest feats and features procurable in
every quarter of the globe has BEEN and still
is, one of the great factors in their remark
able popularity and success. Among them
Tor the first time here, and, in fact, anywh here
except under their canvass, will be seen those
perennial Partisan favorites, the seven Bruin
Lecussons. These remarkable performers
appear in the only original equestrian act
known to the circus for the past half century
| In introducing them they utilize II spirited
fOur-hOrse team, attached to a park brake
| from the bare backs of one and the seats of
! the other executing many entirely original
anu HlOsl extraordinary equestrian ana aero
bate feats. The SZarvrsi FrencZ Troupe of
| Hungarian Magyars. with unpronouncea Bile
| names andincomparable exhibitions of their
| kind, are new and novel phenomena of the
| peculiar dances, heroic acrobatics and mys-
| FERROUS melodies of their prehistoric race
| DiavOlo whose terrific achievement of '.loop-
| ing the loop" on a bicycle has caused such
| universal amazement and comment, is now
| associated with two other equally marvellous
| cyclists the one being Prodigious Porthos.
| who masters the almost incredible feat of
| leaping a fifty-foot-wide chasm on his wheel:
| and the other, Cyclone in his wildly wond-
| rous ascension Of the absolutely perpendicu-
| lar inside circle Of THE DEVILS Chimney" on
| his bike. Mons. Hubert the extra ordinary
| arenlc French lnnovator, among other orgi-
| nalties leaps from the ground to the bare
| back OF his horse while holding aloft "a sulky
| by it's thills. He also finishes "A most expert
and novel Juggling performance while drawn
in park cart, which he finally balances on
| his chin. An Arctic feature, which would
almost stagger the Ice Trust has been added
| to the menageries in fourteen living full
! grown Polar Bears the greatest number of
| these ferOclOuS animals ever seen at one time
| by human eye.
The show under consideration was the
| first to Introduce whole clown circus to
| whose eminent caricatursts and laugh-mak-
| ers are now added the four Martineks, intro
| ducing. among other Partisan hits the Miser
|
the feet, and other Frogland eccentricities
| The military section of the street parade pre-
| sents representatives in Old Glory triumphs
| from Concord to San Juan, clad in the uni
| forms and carrying the weapons used in all
| the intervening time. So world famous in
| champion manual and drill contests have the
| original and only Aurora Zouaves become,
that little need be said in praise OF their pre-
| eminent efficiency III arms and action recog-
| nized everywhere from West Point to St
| Petersburg. Something like one hundred
different equestrian aerial; acrobatic, gym
| nastic and animal acts are spread upon the
| millionaire menu. The stupendous Adam
| Forepaugh herd Of elephants still participate
in stately quadriles and minuets and the
| Sells Brothers mammoth military tuskers
| march and maneuver after fashion to max.
| the Gar hunger for them. The horse show
! il another blood-royal and fascinating fea
| ture, which hoFsemen unite in prouOuncina
| unsurpassed. Among it's hundreds of thor
| oughbreds and pretties ponies are number
ed the very best and most beautiful OF equine
| artists. The cake-wak executed by four o
them was acclaimed by all New York as III.
| browning quadrupedal feature.
| Such holiday hints as thesA are not likely
to be overlooked. forgotten or unapprecia
ted. Remember the date-Saturdny. Novem
| Der 9TH.