The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-09
.YAxPS FROLIC IN The RAIN.
LARCHMONT AMATEUR CIRCUS
STRENUOUS THOUGH DAMP.

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STRENUOUS THOUGH DAMP.
Small Matinee Crowd In Spite OF Allitera'
tion-Fifi's Red Lingerie ami Why
why's Front Feet Repay Those who
Were as Brave ~ the Performers.
The valiant vamps OF Larchmont gave
their annual circus yesterday afternoon
and even the rain couldn't make " wholly
tame.
The program was alluring. Rube Stone,
assistant ringmaster master OF ceremonies
and boss clown. borrowed a leaf from the
saga Of the Sage of Bridgeport to boost the
yearly pranks of Hook and Ladder No. I.
"For the ladies, Lord love them Iarch-
monters read on neat green dodgers, loud
and lively levities; for the little ones, laud-
able, light and liberal lucidties; lofty eger-
demain for the learned, laoonio lampoons
for the laity; languid and listless lassitudes
for the lazy. Loads Of local lights will
Illuminate a labyrinth OF talent. Listen.
Larchmonters."
The printer man Of Larchmont ran out Of
Is at that point, and Rube, the boy press
agent, ended with this appeal to tho rustic
population: Come on Bill, let's chip in and
60. We ought tew support home industries;
our corn CRIB might git afire some night"
Rehearsals for the show we're given In the
village engine house and at the Larchmont
Yacht Club. Most Of the vamps belong
to the club and don't have to run to fires
for living Larchmont was prepared for
. whoop and howl and wild whirl OF
fun, and 30 1t might have been II the drizzle
hadn't queered the show.
The vamps got regular circus top,
round tent big enough to hold half the
that ring should be. The top was put
up in Larohmont Park. at Beach avenue
and Boston Post road. Almost everybody
afternoon performance In his or her niftiest
best. Parties had been organized at the
yacht club; and the kids we're as excited as
II they were going to real for sure circus
Then the rain came down, persistent,
steady, mean kind Of rain that didn't have
that soaked the roads, soaked the grass
floor OF the tent streaked the painted
faces Of the clowns and caused some OF
the finest amateur cussing in the history
2:3O O'Clock in the afternoon there weren't
more than hundred people there, and
most Of these were small boys and girls
that a cloudburst couldn't have kept away
from circus. Outside, fiat on their small
and 5IbbbsSring under the tent
childhood, were small Larchmonters whose
dads couldn't spare them dollar to get in.
To the credit Of the vamps they sailed
In and worked as hard at jokes and stunts
as II the tent had been packed.
There were some professionals on the
program, but they really didn't count
along with the native sons who capered
in chalk face and Reuben whiskers. The
first number that got the staid and disnihed
hand with which Larchmont indicates that
bear" George Mitchell and Schuyler R.
Greene did stunts, Mitchell as travelling
Italian. Greene as hot and much fused
polar bear. RUDE Smpkins and his trained
bulldog Tige got the hand next. Tiige
nose and turning cartwheels.
Charles Perrin struggled WI tn $50 pound
weights made Of RUBBER, and giant dumb
bells made Of PAPER maohe) as the strong
man Of the show. Came then man person
was, and she wore red silk lingerie and
kicked in scandalous style. The girls in
the audience pronounced the makeup Just
too lovely for anything" and they just
couldn' Z see how George got wi I've to so many
fine points: That is a secret that the vamps
aren't telling.
Why-Why' the trick elephant, was a
strange and wonderful beast that had been
caught at dawn drinking in the Sound
or near th Il, Re; w WhyoMhy was shy on tail
scary angle, but his front feet bryant
FassetD and the rest Of him (Schnoesen-
berg) were all to the merry. Even Tige the
intelligent pup wanted to worry the front
feet, which caused strange behavior on the
from from h his trunk: why Why in Hades don't
comebody call Of that blamed dog Ger
tainly, Why-Why was hit.
But the real thrill, the stunt that made
them all sit up, was Dive. the monk, looping
for the loop, which was real circus loop
Of baby size. Dive showed his teeth and
screeched bloody murder when they
strapped him in a baby carriage and put
the thing on top Of the oontrivance.
MIGHT ba PUer possd tor cbrsty s
Grace, that even monkey has feelings,
don't your"
But Dive shot down the incline like
bullet out OF gun, just brown streak
with fiery eyes and a complaining voice
as plainly as il the word had been there:
Blank it all, anyway. | don't see where |
the fun comes in on this deal"
A neat feature OF the show was lariat
thro wing and trick riding by Jack Joyce
The night show made up for the hard
luck OF the afternoon. The rain stopped,
and Larchmonters turned out in fine shape, |
filing the tent. Some Of the boxhqders
A. j. Morgan, John Nelson, E.
Murphy, G.. H. Dale. D.. j Levett, R. X.
o wens, A. J. Stone, L, II. Spence, Mrs. j.
Harrington, E. l.. Lophins. the village
president Horace ia i n. William hein,
Ally, T. A. Mcintyre, Alfred Walden. Dun
can Sterling, c. A, Singer and jackson
EPIDEMIC At CAPITAL.