Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-31
SHRINE CIRCUS
BEATS ALL THE
SHOWS ON ROAD
Back Professionals Off
Boards
Prominent Local Men, After Long
Practice, Become Clever Aero
bats, Clowns and Bare
back Riders


The financial difficulties Of the
Shriners in providing for the enter
tanment of their visitors during con-
clave week of next May have practi-
cally been settled by the big Shrine
Society Circus which will be given at
Fiesta park this week. The sale OF
seats already has passed the 10000
mark, and the big show promises to
he the means Of bringing the enter
tainment plans to q successful issue.
Aside from its serving a useful pur-
pose in providing an exchequer for
the conclave committee, the show un-
doubtedly is the most ambitious under
taking of it's kind ever taken UP In
the city or the west.
Business men have taken time from
their work to train for the show, they
have made large contributions to the
funds, and so enthusiastically have all
the performers worked at their stunts
that what at first promised to be mere
burlesques have developed into excel
lent features, cceditable to professional
performers.
Copp Master Equestrian
A. j. Copp is wonder in his eques-
trian act Never having ridden horse
training under Director Shipp' a month
ago and already has mastered many
of the more difficult equestrian feats.
AS a female bareback rider he stands
on the horses back as it gallops around
the ring, jumps through hoops and
over obstacles and does all the stunts
ordinarily done only by professional
riders of long experience.
II have never seen man take to
the work so readily in my life" said
Mr.. Shipp. IT'S a marvel when you
remember that month ago he mounted
a horse for the first time"
Mr. Copp is an athlete, having won
his letter on the Stanford football team
in 1902
Queen. the horse which the young
man rides, is one of the most famous
show horses in the business. With her
owner, Mr.. Shipp, Queen was for years
with the Forepaugh- Sells circus, and
is indeed the queen of ring horses.
Great Spectacular Event
frte grand entry pageant will be the
showiest Iaffair of it's kind ever at
tempted in a circus entry. There will
be 200 persons in the procession, be-
sides the animals, in a gorgeous and
dazzling display of oriental costumes.
There will be Arab and Bedouin com
panies, the carpet of the holy shrine,
an array of splendidly drilled and bril-
bands and banners enough to ballast
q battle ship. The oriental pageant
is in charge of p. w. Widner. The
grand entry riders who, mounted on
spirited horses, will do fancy riding
stunts around the ring are c. A. Sayre,
A., c. Lusby, William. L. Ewing, L.
Romans, j. H. Mottashed, Walter
Oniey. Walter McCarty and ]. ".
Burns, who will do Roman stand
ine, race" will also be among the
entry riders.
The clowns will give preliminary
exhibition of some select clown roper
toire that has been prepared for the
benefit of well-known Shriners. The
clowns will be one of the most at
tractive exhibits of the show.
In Funny Stunts
The white face clowns will be Leo V.
Youngworth w. S. Krohn, George A.
Fitch r, d, Bronson and Cecil Frankel
Mr.. Frankel is in charge of an edu-
Gated pig, which plays the "Blue
Rells of Scotland" on flute, and has
other entertaining specalties. Mr.
Frankel also is the tutor of the edu-
Gated giraffes. The opening chorus of
the clown song will be led by Mr..
Youngworth. The clown song is mar
vel of artistic merit and has the swan
song beaten to froth.
The high wire Eddy acrobats were
first brought to the attention of the
Shriners as the most proficient in their
line OF business of any in the world
and in preparing their program of
stunts for the circus, they have come
M to the recommendations. There are
five of the troupe in the high wire
performance and six in the acrobatic
act.
Karl De Elmer is a recent acquisition
in Flying fame" act, which has made
tI,A a n
is said to be one of the most beautiful
and at the same time the most thrill
ling ever presented in circus per-
formance.
Marvel of Strength
Albert Trelow, the strong man, has
been picked as the most perfectly de-
Veloped man in the world. He was
awarded the $4,000 prize in Madison
Square garden in the contest several
years ago to choose the man of the
best physical development. He will
give an exhibition of feats of strength
and will deliver a lecture on the side,
outlining his method of physical de-
velopment. The Jeffries brothers will
be on hand to do a heavy lifting act
Jack" and "Dick" Jeffries can lift
anything that isn't nailed down, and
they'll do some heaving that will take
your breath away.
The character clowns will make a
strong bid for first honors in the buff
foonery class. Herbert Cornish and his
goose, the two always inseparable, have
attracted so much attention at the
rehearsals that the management has
been afraid it would have to call them
off. on account of the danger of their
eclipslne the rest of the show. Eddy
Nagle will be a two-faced clown. Eddy
shines in the role of a Janus, and a
prize is offered for a man who can
tell, on the first chance, whether he
is going or coming. Frank Bryson is
a Rube, and he does his stunt so ad-
mlrably that when he left rehearsal in
costume the other night, two bunco men
tried to get to him on the way home
The more distinctly decorative clowns
fitting into the color scheme, will be
ornamental" Bailey Paul Pipers and
r. f. Train. Mr. Bailey is the most
decorative of the lot.