The sun., 1915-03-31
MEET MR.. JOE PIANISSIMO,
LAUGHING HYENAS' MAID
Boss Animal M. Patterson Falls Flat Help Comes
How the Merry Strata Do Enjoy the
Greatest's Press Laddies!

"LAY-uEEZ ANp GES.TEI.L- MENNN OF
THE PRESS" Boss Animal Man Patterson
Of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest began
casually aloud bu; in conversational
manner from the middle ring In Madison
Square Gar den late yesterday afternoon.
his eyes sweeping the dim boxes where
reporters sat watching armies of aero
bats and clowns rehearsing in makeshift
clothes their stunts all over the indoor
Madison avenue town lot, "a thought or
two along sociological lines has just oc-
CURED to me that may he OF interest to
you"
There was short wait while Cyril
Hennessey. Office boy in the publicity de-
parjmtnt or the circus. was dash'ng
e. ON the desk Of young Dexter Fellow"s.
tho boy press agent Of the show tMr.
Feliowes's age is his own business, he
SAYS. and he rcsents being referred 10
IN print familiariy as Old Dexter FEEL
loWes--hence the softsoapI --while Cyfii
H.nnoss,y dashed from the seemingly
youthful press agents desk out 20 the
middle ring wiih some mimeogrdpn-i
imprumptu thoughts that occurred to
y A. Man Patterson As he went along.
"l have just thought Il. \. NJ Pa;-
tcrsnn continued 10 remark. as ne
ahbed the mimeographed sheets fron
cyril with a sigh of ieitef and put on
his glasses. "while--whcre's page one
" this junk yes-wh!le passing /
mon,nt ago he cages IN the laughing
hyena depai tmen. OF Barnum q Bailey :
Greatest Show ON Earth how silly
(Which opens next Thursday evens,g.
prompted a s1wdust filled voice that
anne from beneath the platform next
20 the middle iing
"-- show on Earth. which opens
next Thursday evening continued ~
\. NJ l.. how silly I'VE been during
the past winter to waste my sNnpathies
on the alleged army OF unemployed here
in New York. Pause here for question
from J. X. in box 80"
WHY do YOU row consider your sym
pathetic thoughts silly man said &c
be- Nj Raj asked from box SO.
Welt" resumed T. \. NJ T.. turning
to page of his Ms. ever since the
, big show arrived here from winter quar-
/ 'crs last week il has been next to i'm
/ possible to urd . man in this city wh,
, VIII perform tho light but very remu
'crat.vc responsibilities attendant upof
the position of head chamhermaid TO th'
laughing hyenas. Pause here fol
| qucs--'
Ard why will no one take the posi-
tom hurriedly broke in the man II
box 80.
: Because" snapped r.. \. NJ T.. tax
ing his eyes from the Ms for the mo
ment, the laughing hycnas can SCI
I from their cage into the press depart
mert. and they're laughing themselve
10 dea.h--you big Swede You an,
DcN a-d the rest of YOU guys salve in
INTO getting out into this ring here Il
make fool of myself before the re
portcgs. but I'm through--get me =
through | don't know why fel
for
"Sssssh Sssssh - came from tn
white faced press department spillini
oui OF tho offices and from the man /,
box SO. Hastily young Dexter explaine,
to the ladies and gentlemen Of the pres
then that bashfulness alone prevente
H. \ VI. +. from telling a long hu
Intensely interesting story of how IN
ranks OF the unemployed had bee
searched in vain for chamh s-'naid 70
tho laughing hyenas until yesterdi
forenoon.
Then chance brought 20 the Garde
a StalwIrt Italian named Joe pian!s
smo. said Young Dexter as h
picked M the mlmeorrsphed sheets tina
H. A. NJ +. had angrlly flung dowr