Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-09-20
THOUSANDS SEE
GREATEST SHOW
Barnum and Bailey's Circus
Biggest and Most Ella
bOrate Ever
MANY NEW FEATURES
Big Audiences mt Both Performances
Mammoth Street Parade Seen
BY Thousands.

Barnum and bailey greatest Blu"
on earth-what is really the biggest
and best circus on tour, was in Pine
Bluff yesterday. Every inbound train
brought hundreds of men, women and
children and the streets were literally
jammed during the street parade In
the morning and before and after the
afternoon and night performances.
The two audiences were big ones
and the spectators were highly pleas
ed with the many new features that
were offered. The equipment is mag
nificent, the stock is in fine condition
and the menagerie is one of the most
interesting ever brought to this city
The show is the same as that present
ed in Madison Square Garden. in its
entirely. The heads of the various de-
partments are all gentlemanly and
they treat the public with utmost
courtesy.
It is amazing the way the circus
can go on improving year after year
and burning up all the laudatory ad-
jectives. This season, the publicity
| man gave positive assurance that Il:
was really bigger and better and
newer and fuller of thrills than ever,
| but alas! all the superlatives are ex-
hausted and the circus folks are at
their wits ends to fittingly write Of
the entertainment flying the Barnum
& Bailey gonfalon. All New York APP
plauded it for a matter Of five weeks
4 in the spring and found that, like all
good things, it keeps growing better
as it grows in years. Old P. r. meant
we'll and did well enough in his an
cient day. but If, he wandered into his
own show today. he would feel like
Watt in the engine room Of a dread
nought. ~ y.
This years entertainment is almost
entirely new.,1 The old time grand
.entree" has been thrown in the amuse-
ment scrap heap and in it's stead the
circus opens with a magnificent spec
tacle entitled Cleopatra" based upon
the story of Egypt's beautiful and i'll
fated queen. More than 1000 perform
ers take part in the prodigious panto-
mime, including a ballet of 400 of New
York'snprettiest dancing girls trained
by Ottakar Bartik, maitre de ballet OF
the Metropolitan Opera House, New
York City. The circus has expended
fortune upon the costumes and pro.
perties and the music was composed
by Effendi Faltis, for many years
bandmaster for the Khedive of Egypt
The story is effectively told In a SER
les of mighty tableaux, ensembles
fetes and terpischorean numbers, and
the great resources OF the circus In
camels, horses and elephants are tax.
| ed by the demands Of the play.
The Interpolation of cleopatra
abridges the circus performance in ne
way. The spectacle is literally gra-
tuitous addition to the program. Fol
lowing it the three rings, two stages
hippodrome track and maze OF aerial
contrivances exhibit the daring. grace
full and skillful achievements Of any
army of international circus celebri
ties.
The elephants open the touynamen
and show an entire new repertoire O
tricks calculated to please the mos
faded taste. Conspicuous in theil
stunts is a baseball game, played witt
the enthusiastic spirit Of rivalry o