Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-09-01
OLD YOUR 'ORsES LOOK
OUT FOR THE HElEFANTs
Big Pageantric Spectacle Caps the
Circus Climax

old your orher, the helephants are
coming"
The giddiest, gayest, grandest, gilt
teringest galaxy in the whole wide,
wonderful world is trekking this way
and will spread its acres of tents here
on September q. If one doesn't infer
from this that reference is made to the
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on
Earth" the publicity man will regard
the case as hopeless.
The first advertising car is in this
city and more than score of experts
are spreading with tack and hammer
and paste and brush the flaming litho-
graphic tidings of the approach of the
big travelling amusement institution.
| They are under the direction of Arthur
] E. Diggs, a well known circus advertis-
| ing specialist
| The time -honored custom has always
been to refer to each successive years
circus as bigger and better than ever,
| but the phrase has become so hack
neyed that, this year, Barnum & Bailey
hesitate to use it, despite the fact that
it adequately describes the entertain
ment More railroad cars are required
to transport the show, bigger tents
are raised, more area is needed to ac-
| commodate the show than ever before.
| In fact. the circus has reached point
where it is the despair of many of the
smaller railroads and taxes their ia =
cilites to the limit for eighty-five cars
| are needed to convey the gigantic cam
vas vagrant from town to town.
| There's material enough in this
years circus to make a dozen circuses
of the old days. A big top $50 feet
long, nearly 1900 employees three
aerial apparatus. the biggest stage ever
erected for dramatic presentation. a
110-cage menagerie, $50 horses, forty
elephants, a street parade three miles
long!
The stereotyped grand entree." with
| which the circuses were content to open
| their program for many years, has beer
permanently eliminated from the Bar
mum & Bailey tournament This sea-
son the arenic entertainment is inaugu-
rated by a pageantic spectacle. 1.-THE
, Wizard Prince of Arabia" whose mag
| nitude and splendor have amazed be-
holders in every big and little city Wis
tied. 1t is the most stupendous
achievement in all the long, honore6
history of the picturesque enterprise.
The action of the play begins in the
mountains and deserts of the Beduins
and moves to romantic India. Its wealth
of beWildering spectacular detail. gilt
tering scenic and sartorial investiturt
and masterful ensemble movement
startle the most vivid imagination ant
Guido the most sanguine expectation.
Four hundred dainty, pretty, talented
girls, the most bewi1dering array O.
femininity ever assembled in a dra
matte entertainment, compose the corp!
Gle ballet. Their individual and col
lective dancing is described as thu
most dazzlingly beautiful terpsicho
rean revelation of the. century. The.
are directed by the famous maitre d.
ballet. Ottokar Bartik Hundreds o
horses. camels, elephants and sacret
cattle, richly ACQUIRED, are utilized il
the progress of the spectacle.
The subsequent three-h hour aren't
performance. below and aloft, Barnun
& Bailey's promise, scorns all com
parsons and breaks all records of TIL
past. Every one of the five hundre,
participants is champion in eques
, trianic, aerialistic. equlibristic, aero
batic or gymnastic effort.