The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-20
HAGENBECK
IS COMING
Carl Hagenbeck Triple Featured En-
terprise Coming-Embraces Three
Ring Circus, Trained Beasts and
East Indian Perahera.

The real significance of the words
"Greater Shows" now used in title
conjunction with the name of Carl
Hagenbeck will be readily apparent
when this tented institution exhibits
here on October 81. The Carl Ha-
genbeck shows are no longer devoted
solely to the exhibition of trained
wild beasts. The name must hence
forth stand for greater things in the
amusement world. Not that the ami
NAL performances that spread the
name and fame OF Hagenbeck to the
uttermost ends of the earth have
been relocated to the rear, but rather
that they have been surrounded with
multifarious attractions to form an
amusement institution unequal1ed in
size, scope and grandeur. 1t is now
an enterprise so devirsehed in feature
that no single word has sufficient
elasticity of meaning to cover the
subject.
First of all. there is circus, new
modern, up-to-the-times three-ring
circus, just as large without it's au.-
iliary attractions as the biggest show
of similar character. Under this
heading it embraces everything THAI
a properly organized s.circus should
have and presents numerous STRAIT
| ling features unavailable for other
shows The circus performances are
as complete and perfect as brains,
capital ingenuity and talent can
make them. Three hundred artists
of both sexes and uncounted nation
alities represent every known class
of arenic performers and each and
| every one is a star in his or her re-
| spective line be they aerialists or
acrobats, eqquestrians or equilibrists
leapers or tumblers, clowns or cut
ups, wire walkers, contortionists
race riders or what you will. A con-
slant quest for novelties has beer
prodigiously fruitful of results with
the consequence that there are pre-
scented more startling innovations
than have ever been seen before
Secondly, as a distinctive feature
unparalleled in amusement annals
the Hagenbeck shows present ar
East Indian Perahera, or festival o
the Hindoos. Under the genera
heading are presented the most eN
travagant, picturesque mysterious
and instructive performances and eN
hibitions ever attempted as part o
a tented ausement enterprise. 1hl
addendum, while complete in itself
is part and parsel of the manifold at
fractions that go to make up Ell
elaborate whole The East India1
colony consists of one hundred ma
tives-men, women and children
They are in no sense of the wor
freaks OF nature. They are peopl
of a vast domain of which the aver
age American has but the vagues
book knowledge. The Hagenbec
Perahera offers splendid opportunit
for interesting study of the peculia
, characteristics of these strange pee
pie; OF their mode of livig, thir pun
suits. their religious beliefs an
scruples and their instestine relation:
The Hindoos, however, are not pre-
scented solely for purposes of sta
tionery exhibition. In the parade {
the morning they will be seen in
bewilderingly beautiful reproductio
of an East Indian ceremonial proce:
sion extravagantly rich in costumln
and given the desired local color b
1.-THE introduction OF elephants, camel
boundaries, llamas. zebras and Y
,brulas. caprisoned and bejeweled {
is the wont of the Oriental.
The worldfamed Hagenbeck tralI
least important feature of these d
diversified shows In the animal pc
formances the wizard of the amin
:. iworld promises greater tr1umphs tia
he has heretofofer accomplished. tt
most startling presentation in Il
steel girted arena will be a subjugatt
group of lions and lionesses, tige
and tigeresses, leopards, pumas, Pol
bears and boar hounds, conjoint
: participating N almost incredible pc
formances under the quiet directio
;, OF a single trainer.
Miles of parade glories and the "a
est and largest menagerie give cor
p1etion to these newer and great
shows
: lust RECEIVED AT