Arizona republican., 1912-09-24

patra spectacle and pageant. The us ] ual parade around the ring, and then | the vision of some person acting something upon a big stage, making | motions with their hands, and shout I, ing occasionally to mail clad denizens l of the Roman and Egyptian world 1 that flocked the foreground. Without ! the ballet the spectacle would have been so much time wasted Whoever constructed the terpischorean mazes of the ballet as presented had mas
 ter's knowledge of the art The
 drills were perfect. Two hundred wo- men danced in perfect rythm, many with charming daintiness and grace, while others with merely the me chanical motions that come from long practice. The eyes of the thousands were fixed upon one little girl in startling pink tights who occupied the center of the front lines of the bal let. More than one encOnium upon her graces was passed during the | two performances. After some min | utes of ballet which was most pleas 1 ing, the big curtain at the left of the l stage opened and three mail clad | warriors came hustling forth bearing l the body of one of the men who had 1 been effusive and superefficient in | gesture in the early portion of the 1 spectacle. The readers of the pro-
 gram found this was Antony coming | home of a shutter shot. He was taken to the top of the stage, Cleo
 patra then took d fit by way of va | riety and finally fell over Antony's | body and the whistle blew closing the curtain. It was well it closed.
 Then came the sure enough circus. 1 Riding of the most masterly charao- 1 ter by men and women. The work of | Miss Wirth was wonderful This
 chunky young woman did all the diff
 ficult bareback riding tricks that the
 men before her did and did them
 with much more grace and greater abandon. The Japanese troupe of jiu
 jitsu artists and wrestlers was inn 1 mense getting all sorts of apprecia :
 tion from the audience. The seals l performed their tricks of balancing the elephants stood on one leg, danc-
 ed rag time, played ball and played . l dead at the crack of the whip, the strong woman surprised the crowd as much by her size as her strength the ! shetland ponies and the monkeys in-
 terested the little ones, while the ; trapeZe work of three splendid troops | provoked the applause of the entire assembly Finally the races ended
 the show.
 No circus would be complete with : out the clowns The clowns yesterday were on hand singly and in couples, ir . trios and quartettes. Shorty. the Ari- zOna dwarf. led the fun makers 1T ? most of their spasm causing tricks ] The patrol wagon. the clown police | knOckabout stuff galore, new and old was pulled under the big tent jus as it has been since the first circus ! was organized yet it brought thu u good will of the audience to the sur-
 face. Laugh after laugh rang Ovel 1 the rings at the antics of some great CT fool than his brother A clowI made up as Teddy and leading a bull | l moose received considerable applaust in a circle of the ring. Tn leaving = the crowd was good natured in spit of the time it took to get out Th' circus had been old fashioned enougl 5 to make many remember their ki'
 days. Pink lemonade, pop corn, pea o nuts and hot dogs were consumed il the same unstinted fashion as tWent e years ago. Circus day comes bu D seldom
 With all the pleasure of the bi = show there were many things at Whic A. rightful exception can be taken. Tn IS most noticeable was the fact that tn
 ticket sellers after the show was abou l. half over began selling duplicat
 l tickets with the result that man
 people who had purchased seats an
 1 had checks were bothered by usher coming up with more people fo
 | those very seats. This did not Occu once but many times, and indicate , either a WOeful lack of organiZatio l or the prevalence of a rabid spirit C graft on the part of the organization No persons should be allowed to s
 in the aisles yet this was done
 many instances
 ''Howdy Bill! Did you go to tE circus yesterday"
 O Well yes; you see had to tai !. the kids"
 You're 8 liar, you are the bigge' Q kid in your family"
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