The evening world., 1908-03-20
GREATEST SHOW
ADDS THR|LLERS
AND IS GREATER
Autos That Pass in the Air"
h Only One of New Soul
StirrerS.
LEAMY LADIES LOVELY.
Pretty Girls Who Spin Daz-
zlingly Pop Into Popularity
+ at One Whirl.
LEAMY LADIES LOVELY.

n Is no d,spara cement to the former
management OF the Barnum G. Bailey
Circus to say that the show now on
view at Madison Square Garden is the
biggest and best ever given In New
York. The Ringing Brothers, break
Ing into the metropolis for the first
time. have not only improved the old
show. but have surpassed anything
they have ever before done in the cir
Gus world.
The performance is fairly stuffed with
thrills and enjoyment. II is the hardest
thing in the world 10 dig out new fea.
lures for circus. but new features
pervade the programme OF the Barnum
d Bailey Show as garlic pervades a
Spanish table d'hote-spicy and long.
enduring In memory
OF course. the big feature OF the show
10 the Autos that Pass in the Air"
act-the concluding crash OF a booming
bill. This one has all the loop-the-loop
ana loop-t1he-gap performances look
Ing like 4 fat lady entering an elevator.
Whzz! Zip! oh!-Ahl
Two cars. one white the other red.
start down a long incline In the red
car is tall girl wearing a blue Prin-
cess gown with n double row OF but
tons down the back. In tho red car Is
. sort of hcsitaung blonde girl in yell
low. After many Notwithstanding pre-
nu,inaries young man in blue uni
form. high up at the towering top OF
tas incline, pulls string that releases
the Garland the girls.
AZ the time the spring Is pulled the
cars are tandem on the slop!ng track.
he red car IN the lead. the white car
tSht behind and almost touching. The
Fed car, heavier In structure and cargo.
gains quite . lead bv the time the bot
eosn Of tho incline IS reached.
The red car leaps out and upward
end turns completely over in the air
A II b turning. the little white car
shoots by. directly under 1t. lands on a
padded Incline as far as across the
street down tho arena, and starts for
tho Madison avenue entrance like Chief
Croker going to a fire.
And Just as the white car is out OF
tho way the red car comes down on
tho padded platform with crash that
brinDs everybody In the house half way
out Of his seat. Last night the plat
form caved a little on the left hand
s.de, and the girl in the blue Princess
gown made a sudden grab for her dis
arranged pompadour.
Ceamy Ladies Thrill, Too.
Th,, act seems to be the limit. unless
they start the cars from opposite sides
O. the arena and NJ AXE them pass each
other somersaulting in the air. 1t is
hat ha
dSured out the feature may accomplish
even this by next season.
BY far the cutest and most satisfy
ing aerial performance this faded old
town has ever experienced is that OF
the Leamy Ladies With the puchri-
tude OF the four little performers, their
grace and joyful energy the colored
tights OF their elaborate apparatus and
the swing and 20 OF their dinicut 1eats
the act Is almost sensuous.
The little s!rl with the pink bow in
her hair Is certainly tho spinning kid
She will be the pet of New York be-
fore the circus goes away. The enohu-
siasm of the four pretty performers.
their manifest desire to please and
their unrestrained appreciation OF the
applause that greets them goes far to
cement their popularity.
There arc other fine aerial perform
anoes. notably that Of the Yiennese
troupe OF ten. and OF the young men in
whlte who perform simultaneously in
ne other end of the ring.
Horse Goes Up In Balloon.
And then there Is wotan. the horse
that goes up in q balloon. BY many
a -.
bill. Tho horse stands on a small plat
form underneath a balloon shaped con-
trtvanoe. and is hoisted clear to the
roof Of tho Garden. When he Is at the