Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-07
RED CAPPED MOBILES PUT ON
GOOD ENTERTAINMENT
AMATEURS DO REALLY DARING
PERFORMANCES
SelIs-Floto Professionals Help Some
In Ground and Lofty Tumbling,
but They're Not the
Whole Show

"A perienced in the way OF circuses
broke loose yesterday afternoon at
Prayer park when the Al MalalKan
temple of the Los Angeles Ancient
Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine opened up its big show 10
raise an endowment fund for the Chil-
dren's hospital
That it is the biggest conglomera-
ton of exciting nonsense ana cleVer'
artistic entertainment ever offered the
Los Angeles public is agreed oy al
who saw it yesterday. The Shriners
have secured the Sells-Floto shows,
wintering at Venice, and In aooitioh
to first class equestrians, acropa.s'
eouilibrists, aerial performers, dancers,
clowns and wild animals peionsihs "
Ills Famous aggregation they have in
tIoduced a number of high class local
features and embellished the WnoIo
with some of the best acts and actors
obtainable from other sources. TOT
that reason the Shriners circus is no,
ike a road circus, but entirely orlsinal
end far more funny than any ytnihs eNei
dreamed of by Barnum at MS pest:
The fellow who sells you the ticket
in front of the main entrance; the man
who takes 1t at the gate ana tne man
who tries to tempt you with RED ienon-
ade after you get in begin the snow
with comicalities that all put prepare
Won for what's coming; but II you go
70 the show merely expecting TO De
amused YOU are liable to go home shy
of a few vest or trouSer buttonss 1of
you're going to laugh longer and louder
than you've dreamed Of lts hrst
giggle, then ha ha. blending INTO an
eIophantine roar that would do credlt
thunder storm. and dIItT
that you kind o. lean over In some
bodys wife's lap and wonder II you're
having a pipe dream.
"Its too good to be true said one
of the Shriners yesterday But it's all
true. a.
The circus program is long ana
varied and contains everything from
ssIJncle Hiram" and his wife, Aunt
Lucindy'-probably the most famous
"Rubes" known to the circus world
nm to some of the cleverest aerial acts
ever offered "Uncle Hiram" is the
famous "Rube" who first introaucea
The popular gag" of interrupting
circus parade when he drives into II
il. blackboard loaded with alfalfa and
he gins to rubber" at one OF the riders.
He is one of the highest salar1ed Dur-
|, sque entertainers now with sells
Floto and his wife is an able assistant.
she catches him staring at the RUSSIAN
cancers is too good to keep.
But If Uncle Hiram" is profess
sional clown he hardly eclipses some
Of the many Shriners who utilize the
hppodrome with all kinds OF stunts
SO foolishly funny that 1t would re-
ol,ire an Argus-eyed jumping jack to
catch even half of them. Those ,Shrin-
Ell clowns actually give one the St
Vitus' dance, the way they compel at
tention from one side of the big tent
to the other. You twist the bottom
out of your seat Watching EN-: then
you go away and somebody tells you
about something a title better which
you overlooked.
Lou Striger, the Shriner who does the
Chinese clown stunt and sings some
really genuine Chinese songs in mid
air. suspended on a rope, is among the
cleverest of the local funmakers.
His Wink Not for You
Noble c. O. Metcalf. in the guise of
a corpulent policeman, weighing few
ounces over 500 pounds, does your heart
good if he only winks, for it's wink
that knocks your maiden modesty sky
high until you discover it's cross |
eyed one aimed at the girl on the other
side.
Noble Herb Cornish, who is entered
on the bill of fare as Noble Marry |
Wed-dough Cornish, wears a Merry |
Widow hat that is only trifie under |
six feet wide, and it's the swellest
article of millinery that ever decked the
Uranium of a modern Maud Muller. |
When 1t rains hard the elephants crawl
under this hat for protection, and they |
don't get sprinkled either.
Then there are other clowns. Mobiles |
L. o. Lieber and w. M. Boyle per-
form few burlesque operations that |
are really a great relief for bilious
ness ,and E. r. Gregory l. r. Smith, |
C. N. Baker. Leo Lipson, E. T. Cad
den and Cecil Frankel, wearing every |
thing from poker-dot ballet skirts to
Weary Willie" scarecrow remnants, |
also perform some merry miracles call |
culated to make you forget even your |
wife's mother.
Noble S. A. Butler. jr., is there with |
a half-d dozen good ones. A. p. Chi |
prom accompanies him with a series of
excruciating comedy stunts that help |
stimulate the roar, and William H. |
Mead, the horribly fat man with the
terrible bicycle, goes through a melee |
of rip-snorting feats that make the |
management tremble and scare the |
stoical camels over in the next tent. |
Mead is decidedly funny, especially |
when he falls, and so are Mobiles M |
Everhardy and Perry Whiting, who do |
tnlilRS IlSNtt SpOhSu VI dt CilQiCu anu
make the professional circus clowns sit |
up and watch 'em. Noble F.. l.. Bolts |
ford also enters In two or three direc- |
tions and stumbles over things in a |
way that makes the elephants hustle |
to one side and starts a real panic in |
the menagerie.
"Yankee Doodle" Opens Program
Leo. V. Youngworth, director general
of the amusements, aided by w. p. |
Jeffries, business manager, and Ches-
ter W. Thompson, Robert Wankowski, |
II. II. Henderson, Walter r. Leeds and |
w. II. Harrison, all deserve considera-
BILE credit for their success in arrang-
ing the big program, for they have Sc
cured some of the best attractions ever
offered to circus lover. They have
been aided directly in the work by
Mobiles Louis M. Cole, L. j. G. Spru-
ance H. G. Krohn Ben N. Powers, ].
G. Scarborough. Motley H. Flint, A F.
Frankenstein, j. III. Nitingale, Fred A.
Hines, ,orge A. Fitch, A. K. Brauer, !