Evening journal., 1912-05-08
CIRCUS HERE
FRIDAY WITH
NEW FEATURES

pitch camp in Wilmington. on Friday.
of this week. giving afternoon and
night performances and a street pa
rade.
How can the circus go on improy-
ing every year and burning up all
the laudatory adjcctives2 This year
1T really is bigger and better and full
er OF thrills than ever, but alas, all
the superlatives are exhausted and
the circus publicity man is al his
wits end to ittingly write of the
present entertainment All New York
appauded it for a matter of five
weeks this spring. and found, that
like all good things, it keeps growing
better as Il gains in years.
Old p. r. b. meant we'll and did
we'll enough in his ancient day, but II
he wandered into his own show today
he would be as ratified as Watt in the
engine room OF a dreadnaught
The program is almost entirely new
and presents for the most part names
and faces new to America. The show
opens with a wordless play entitled
sCleopatra," based on the story Of An
tony and Cleopatra. over 1000 peo-
pie appear in this production. and a
large ballet is introduced, trained by
Ottokar Bartik of the Metropolitan
Opera Hoasc. The costumes. proper
ties and all impedimenta are historic
ally correct and the scene inyestiture
carries the audience back to ancient
Alexandria. over 1000 costumes are
utilized and the resources of the cir
Gus in horses and elephants find am
pie expression In the most pretentious
production ever attempted under can
vas. The music is i'm accordance with
The period involved, and was especial
~ arranged by Faltis Effendi. late
bandmaster of the Khedive of Egypt
The entire affair is carried out in
series of mighty stage pictures. and
the episode that inspired the genius
Of Shakespeare and that had its tragic
denouement ten years later I'm the
suicide Of the great Roman and the
sensational death of Cleopatra is
thrillingly told by means of great en-
sembles. fetes and terpsichorean ac-
compartments.
just Some Circus Slang.
After the spectacle comes the cir
Gus proper. The bulls" open the
show. Bullsg Sacredg No-slang-
The word is the circus mems slang
for elephants. After taking post
graduate courses al the winter
uuartrs they bring along an entire
new bag of tricks to please the most
6aded. Chief among the new students
As the elephant ball game. introducing
Koko. the only elephant spit ball
pitcher in or out of captivity. The
game is a laughable affair that makes
YOU keep right on laughing through
hhe next day, especially the trumpet
whispered consultation of the battery
and the batsman's numbering slide for
home The game is given with all
the accoutrements of bases. ball,
gloves. mask. etc. The Berne Brothers.
Sw'tzerland's strongest men, and
Kate Sandwina. the female Hercules
are also new features. The latter Is
a most attractive woman and upon
appearing privately before group ol
New York physicians was pronounced
more nearly the perfect woman
than any one they had ever seen. Ihe
Berne Brothers conlude their act
with one of the men being pulled by
ahe neck by an elephant, He hrst ias-
tens tugs to his arms, the tugs ieao-
inr hack 10 wagonload Of men. A
moose is put about his neck ana at
fached 10 an elephant As the ele-
phant starts to tug, the man BUN
stiffens. and he drags along the wagon
filled with twenty or tnlriy men.
The Mikados royal troupe OF atn
letes comprising wrestlers ana Jl
iitsu experts are an aggregauon o
Japanese which are quite diueren'
from, any Japanese strong men ever
seen in this country. The wrestlers
are wild looking folk. all built on inc
lines Of a grand square plano rem
forced bv the superstructure OF M
Lusitania, and the way tney SIAN
one another around In their wrestling
pleasantries makes the stages t.em
ble The iu Itsu exponents-thre
men and two women--are smaller an'
more cleanly limhed and give an ex
pert exposition Of their art, TOT l'
iitsu is the japanese national art o
self defence.
Greatest Rider Ever Lived.
A dashing young Australian gifl
Nav Wirth. OF the Wirth family a
perhaps the big star Of the sho"
Uera il the wav the uroEram an
nounces her: Display No. a. Firs
appearances in America of absolute
" the worlds greatest bareback rio
er. exhibiting feais ~ cqueatrianisu
never attempted By another woman
Eighteen years Of age and me great
est rider that ever lived
High praise. bat vel ceaeffff
This little girl dances and SKID
about on her flying steef win al ~
easy abandon of a child playing D
grassy Lawn. While the horse gal
Ions she sits for moment on III
quarters. then bounds 70 fun heigh
ana turns a somerEeuit A. a cl
max the girl runs acr0ss the rim
and flies rather than leaps upon t1
gailoping back Of the only lean. kcer
fiery circus horse in the world. II
daehes by like an express train max
ing up lost time. and she somer
sauits backward and forward in
laet nonchalant blaze of glory.
There are other riders. tooth
DarerportE. Bradna and Derrick N
Sesbcrt Sisters. Charles and Sfell
WIrth. = sister OF Mays but May
ire real ariEtOcraf OF the ridin
world Der work Is more wonderful
~ her colleagues of the circus tina
~ f1c laiiy. Tor the performers un
cerefard the unusual difficulty OF
1l. Tho trained animal numbers ar
tr greater prolusiOn than ever before
Once n Was enough 10 have on
n1fDoon riding . bicycle around OF
ftf stage Nov Tie circus has wv
riding tandem Then there are trair
~ seals geese. porCiue actors. dos
an1 wnaf-nOt The acrobatic an
aerial numbers present the yer
cream pf the foreign arenas. iuclu,
ing the i;iegriFt. Siibon, L. Narr an
Imperial Niennese troupes In fyir