The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-11
LLAMas IN HARNEss
Zebras, Elephants and CameIs Will he
Driven Like Horses I'm the Circus
Parade Next Tue~aay

4 team Of llamas pulling a fairy
tableau float, is one Of the novel
sights found this year in Ringing
Brothers street parage. There is also
team of eight zebras. which are
supposed TO be unbreakable Six ele-
plants, driven tandem, and hitched to
an immense British Indian chariot of
war is still another sight. \ team of
twenty camels, driven by one man.
pulls another heavy art van.
From the great golden band chariot
in the lead. with its team of thirty
horses. to the Enthusiastically carved
steam siren wagon on the tail end
three miles away, the parade is one
long panorama Of the wonders of the
world. 1t unfolds itself into startling
pictorial surprises before the eyes OF
spectators. 1t discloses a thousand
novelties. Every mile is a mile of won
ders, peopled with strange human
types from every civilized and uncivil-
lied land on the earth. over $50
horses and two-thirds Of the elephants
in America are shown.
Ringing Brothers have surpassed
all their brilliant records with this
new spectacle. 1t was built in the for
eign workshops of the show in Eng
land last winter, by an army of the
most skilled of Italian and French ar
lists and originators. 1t cost the man
agement over 81 900 900. Only the best
materials were used. The wagons,
dens, chariots, floats, hOwdahs, rick
shaws. thrones, ships of state and
palanquins are hand-carved and bur-
nished with pure gold-leaf. The cos
TUNES are of the finest silks and broad
cloths. They were designed and WOW
en- in France. The flags, banners,
scarfs and standards are expensive
works of japanese art. The harness is
silver mounted.
This parade is equivalent to a tour
| of the world at the price of nothing.
1t brings before the eyes of the peo-
| pile a world of more strange sights of
foreign Importation than a tourist
could see in a years travel Oriental
frajahs, ameers, pashas, caliphs, shieks.
barbarian despots and savage chief
4 tains. with their retinues and regal
trappings, reflect the splendors of the
earth's Kingdoms. The warriors of the
enlightened nations and the boomerang
| throwers and heather club swingers
of remote islands ride on cavalry
horses and in the characteristic war
vehicles of their own fashioning.
| In the childrens section there are
pumpkin carriages, golden chariOts
| fairy river barges, enchanted palaces,
floating carpets, diamond grottos, sub
marine fairy domains and categorical
floats, peopled with the characters of
mythology and child-lore. All the
myths of Mother Goose's realms are
there The fete-day scenes of quaint
countries are depicted. This great
parade will begin the days festivities
when the show exhibits in Ocala on
Tuesday, October Is.
| The addition to the regular perform
ance of the $500, 200 wordless spectacle
Joan of Arc" has given Pinglang day
a double significance. The spectacle in
itself is wonderful power of attrac-
ton. There is no stage in America
large enough to hold a spectacle of the
dimensions of this one. In one big
scene, the coronation of Charles Vii
/ 200 characters are within view of the
audience.