The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-06
SHOWS THRONCED
CROWDS PLEASED
COUNTRY CIRCUS CENTER OF AT
TRACTION TO MANY WHO
WENT TO CARNIVAL.
co. K BOYS AT GATES
Bride-to.be of Lion Tanner Shakes Her
Head Over Proposed Marriage
In Lion Cage Thursday
Night.

Last night, the second, of the Co
X Fourth Regiment Guards Famous
Robinson Shows. on Thirty-eighth
street grounds, opsned to one of~the
largest crowds that ever took tram
car and sped out there.
The electric light company has be.
stirred their power and sent in thar
arc and bulb radiance that covered
grounds, golden-front tents and pee
I pie with an aura OF }rsmatic glorias.
With this illuninant inspiration
even the animals in the big menagerio
first tent at left OF lot as one enters)
awoke to the significance of the oc
casion. The lions, tigers. leopards.
pumas, panthers and the big black
bears from the Rockies. entered into
the spirit of the occasion. gaped their
enormous jaws and frisked tails in
jungle mild ferocity.
1t is treat to watch these true-to-
Nature pets of which ex-President
Roosevelt is so fond. The trainer
marshais his eight male and female
lions inside the steel-girt arena, forms
them into pyramids, groups them in
TO luxuriant cushions, upon which he
throws himself carelessly and com.
mands huge lioness to jump over
him and the jungle monarchs. Then
sending them through hoops of fire
their especial dread feeds them raw
meat as carelessly as a Sherry diner
in New York, with a monkey for a
prominent guest.
The manoeuvres of the leopardS
octette, handled by Nine. Louie, are
both amazing and laugaable The dan.
gerous beasts. as graceful as the poe
try of motion, snarl and snap their
teeth at their pretty trainer-but they |
do her bidding strictly,
The country circus, as its name i'm
plies, fills the bill admirably. Ring |
master, clowns, refractory mule, leap |
ing, tumblng, trapeze and tight-wirc |
horse-around-ring with riders, and all !
cause one to bark back to ones bog |
hood days when Dan Rice, Van Am /
burg aud the old-time showmeu were |
leaders When carrying water for
the elephants was equivalent to 4 |
ticket Of admittance
The only thing that seems to be
lacking is the ancient practice of an.
nouneing the concert after the big |
show-only dime, ladies' and gent"
Doubtless the management will add !
this, in itself merry quip, later to
he ensemble
The talking pictures show couldn't |
begin to hold the crowds that flocked |
in to see and hear the sensational de-
nopnlent OF those wonderful realistic
scenes in the life of Jesse James.
Buckeye Bellies. beautiful women reo
resenting 0hio's choicest beauties,
We're kept singing and dancing for the
crowds the whole. night through.
The Elite Ministries. colored. SANG
their sweetest melodies with levee
flavor and cotton field atmosphere.
The Seven Temptation hebes who's
attractive beauty on the front plat
form creates a sensation much as
would an expose OF the Sultan Ha,oun
Rachids harem at a pink tea, drew
crowds inside anxious to hear their
purlirgly sweet voices al closer range.
Ii was the consensus Of opinion that
the eloquent announcer (who rosem
Dles college pgofassor) is given to
in his description II
things material
Regarding the marriage of two of
The company, mentioned here yester.
lay, 1t was then suggested that the
bonds be welded in the interior of the
steel-girt arena, Animal Tent. That
t be conducted in circle formed byl
he eight lions and lionesses that the
.rainer pastures and poses earlier IN
he vening, endangering his life andl
imb, too, it should be said II
But details and announcements will
nave to be made later The pretty :
,ride-t0-be, Miss Chesterfield, cannot
get her courage to the sticking 7
)ont'' as Hamlet said She much pre-. t
ers house.cats association to close
contact with the iungles' Numidian 1t
ions y