The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
FIRST OF SEASON.
Vim. Sells Brings, His Show
Next Week.
Has a Real Circus With Many
Features.
PUNCH WHEELER'S LIST
Famous Press Agent Tells What
May Be Expected.
Miss Kitty Kruger Of Topeka
One of Riders.
LUNCH WHEELER LIST

The first circus of the season comes
next Wednesday. It is the Sells-Floto
show and with It will come Willie Sells,
the Topeka Snowman whose energy and
name help to make the show one of the
successful ones on the. road this season.
This is what Punch Wheeler, the
press agent who is famous from one end
of the country to the other, has to say
about it:
Circus managers are fond of adver-
Using their shows as the greatest ag-
gregation in the world, and as the Mon
ster' attraction, with all the name i'm
plies. but it has remained for Sells
F1otos people to invent the catchy. title,
The Bi.; Show of the World And the
entire plant, elegant equipment, costly
trappings. gorgeous cages and tableaux
cars, splendid parade and clean sur
roundings, with meritorious circus
programme viii bear out the promising,
title.
The big shows talent comprises more
exclusive feature acts than has ever
been seen before under canvas with any
one organization The programme in
clrdes the Peerless Potters, information
al aerialists direct from a three years
enga cement in Europe. High up IN the
dome of the great canvas they give
marvellous performance, one almost
nerve recking to witness, and when it
is all over you are convinced that the
vast realm, so long inaccessible to man,
has at length been conquered, for you
have seen the real kings of the air.
Kitty Kruger, premiere eques-
trienne, is a Topeka women.
Then the Ty-Bell Sisters. another
European feature, performing most as
tonishing feats in mid-air, finish their
act with whirlwind cloud swings, hold
ing only with their teeth to suspended
wires. De Carlo. Stokes and Glenn
mings, trio of flying comedy meteors,
the marvellous Maryellos, acrobat1c
dancers, Cecilia Fortuna and the Mon
daluson Sisters, all famous arena stars;
a bevy of girls flying, darting, spinning
and driving in the air like unWinged
birds The MaFtel1 family, premier BIZ
cyclists of the world; the Alpine fam
lily, expert high wire artists, wonderful
cake walkers on a double strand. Her
bert, the frong man, who does every
thing that a great big, live green frog
does a confidently wonder. Mile.
Hilda, the elastic Venus, anatomical
marvel, Vallecita and her ferocious
group az trained lions, Ieopards, tigers
and spanthers, performing in a 40-foot
ring entirely enclosed in q steel ribbed
cage the Girl in Red" mysterious for
eign arenic featufea Christopher Sets,
Europe's most famous elephant trainer
and the SelIs-F'loto herd OF performing
elephants; Lew Sunlin, trainer of do
nestle animals with his troupe of edu-
Gated bulls, trained comedy mules and
performing whifEeH dogs; two score of
funny clowns to fenliven this most
praiseworthy programme
The Sells-FlotOs management regard
every patron to their exhibition as their
personal guest and will be entertained
and treated as SUCH No games Of
chance, oVerchaTges for tickets or any
thing sold on the show grounds will be
tolerated.
The big shows come here for two
exhibitions on Wednesday, May g.