The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-17
.RINGL|MG CIRCUS
IS TOP N01CHER
Show Filled With Clean, Up-To- Date
Acts, and Bumper Crowd Enjoys
Every Minute.

II was a case OF father and the
boys"-and some girls-Thursday at
the Ringing Bros. most stupendous
and colossal pageantry and panorama
on EARTH" otherwise the circus. To
the regular attendant at the circus
never before were there SO many boys
and girls OF all ages. sizes and COM
plexious as crowded the big tent,
Thursday afternoon and evening, out
On the grounds just west OF the water
works or course. father and mother,
big brother Tom and grown-up sister
Sue. to say nothing OF nurse Mary
Jane, had to go along just TO see thar
no harm came to the youngsters.
The ice cream cone man, the popcorn
and peanut vendor and the lemonade
hoy did the biggest business OF the
season so far. The clowns created a
continuous thirst In little throats be-
cause everybody laughed SO hard at
their antics. II the grown-up had not
found so much in the show itself to
entertain and amuse there would have
been moneys worth In just watching
the army Of excited. delighted kid
dies" II can be truthfully said that
never has Detroit seen better circus.
The show was clean. up-to-date, novel.
and, while offering many thrilling and
unusual acts, was free from those In
which the element Of positive danger
Is SO great that they are unpleasant
10 watch. Three rings and two stages
we're In commission at one and the
same time, and in every one of them
there was something worth while.
The circus arena does not hold a
better horseman than John Agile, who,
in multitude OF different stunts"
especially distinguished himself in
ring No. with three horses, vino
hurdled through huge casks on a
brewery wagon in what the program
called The Great Brewery Act"
These clean-limbed. sleek. beautiful
beasts went through their turn with
splendid vim and did the most re-
markable jumping and hurdling under
Agie's direction. Later, In the hippo
drome races. Agile gave an exhibition
OF rough riding that could not be OK
oelled in clever horsemanship.
Mrs. Wulf was, another big head
liner among the eQuestrians. She was
stunning and handsome figure in
violet colored habit, with large hat
laden with plumes atop Of her smart
ly-coiffed hair. a magnificent Italian
greyhound aiding her splendid black
charger in one OF thu prettiest and
classiest acts the circus tent knows.
With so many high-class features 1t
was hard for the observer to say that
enc was better than another, and the
Ringing Bros show OF 1910 will GER
tainly go down into the annals of cir
Gus history in Detroit as being req,
top-notcher.
The clowns to the number of two
dozen or more we're extremely funny.
their humor being really laush-produc-
ing. Mrs Delortellis. said to be the
only woman clown in the business.
held her own in the fun-making and
did several clever stunts.
The animals in the Ringing show
are particularly good collection and
were source Of interest and pleasure.
the children especially hanging around
the various wagons housing the beasts
of the fosests TO the very last minute
OF their elders patience. The side
shows, too. drew their quota of we'll
pleased visitors, while the grand
concert" without which circus
would not be complete, was filed with
entertaining features