Arizona republican., 1914-09-22
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Performance Meets General Approval, Especially the Work of Slack-wire Art ists-Brilliant Spectacle Youth and Age Meet

After all there is only one Great est Show on Earth" It matters not if one sees it in Northwestern Can ada, in the green hills of Vermont, In the great amphitheatre of Madison Square Garden or under the sunny skies of Southern Arizona, Barnum and Balley's circus lives up to it's name. circus is a wonderful thing, it is not only perpetual motion per sonified; but it has the secret of perpetual youth, and furthermore it has the gift of imparting perpetual youth to it's audiences Once the broad portals of the big top is pass ed, age falls away like mist before the sun, and all the great throng be- tcome children once more.
 There were lots of children in Phoe- nix yesterday, thousands upon thou sands of them, ranging in age from Under five to over eighty five, all bent on good time and seeking the one infallible source of youthful en- Joyment-the circus. It was good circus, the best we have seen in years, and it was not the same thing over again. The glitterng galaxy of glistering glOries that were unfolded in exotic colorings in the spectacle Iof The Wizard Prince of Arabia was all that the press agent claimed it really was a splendid spectacle in finitely better than anything of the kind we have ever seen with a cir GUS, a riot of color in kaleidoscopic changes. As for the ballet it was put on in true Hippodromian style and brought back memories of Eldo- rado and Manhattan Beach in the hey day of their glory. One expected to see an eruption of Paine's fireworks minute.
 As for the big show that followed the spectacle, no one poor mortal could hope to describe more than d very small part of it. With three rings, four stages and goodness only , knows how many aerial contraptions to follow one needed all the newly bestowed exuberance of youth to avoid a sprained back, stiff neck and
 
 the wonders.
 The one act that struck us hard est was Bird Millman, the Tango Queen of the slack wire Thi! young woman is one of the sever wonders of the world of circusdom '. nothing like her performance has eve , been seen in the tanbark arena ant of hot fu , of sall human encyclopedias, the cir GUS press agent, could say too mucl of her accomplishments. The Lorett; Twins were wonders on the tripl
 bars and Signor Bagonghi, 'Th Apollo Belvedere of the Arena, ''th rider who made all Europe laugh. . demonstrated that Europe has nothing , on Phoenix Not much bigger thai J minute, this funny little dagc
 with the aid of a horse and a sub stantial rope attachment, made tn h huge audience shake with laughter
 He is a scream; not only has he
 well developed sense of humor bu
 he is a mighty clever artist as vel
 The horses and riders were all tha '. everyone expected, especially the statu :. horses and the black high school ani ', nal, and then there was the banC
 Talk about perpetual motion, Ina
 band was superperpetual!. It was !, good band too, a mighty good banC d It was playing when we entered an d it was playing khen we left, for a d we know it may be playing yet, w
 rather hope it is for if so someon n is enjoying it.
 Pity the man who cannot enjo
 the circus Times may be hard an if we all need the money and the bl n show undoubtedly took a heap ( 70 change away with it; but it earne 10 very cent it got. It was worth for all those thousands of people " be boys and girls again. The circu
 is the prize rejuvenator of the uni II verse: it comes high but we mus n have it. particularly if it happens o, be Barnum and Bailey's.
 MAITLAND DAVIES.