The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-28
HAS ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE
Splendid Attractions Offered by Man
Agement - Professional Circus Men
and Women Perform-Local Tai
emit Vies With Others.

It was real circus with the blare
of brasses, the shrill pipe of the caliope,
the neighing of horses, the futtering
Of pennants and an enthusiastic audi
ence which on Tuesday night was
thrown open for week 8 run in the
Coliseum, under the auspices of the
Knights Of Columbus, managed and
directed by Edward Dayton.
The great hall had been attractively
decorated with dainty booths on one
side where skill and industry had made
q fitting place for the pretty wares
which were for sale in them On this
side were also the dressing rooms for
the amateur performers. On the other
were the dressing rooms for the pro-
fessionals and the one big side show,
otherwise the fashion show, and one Of
the big attractions of the performance,
On the outside Of the ''tent' in true
poster style, were the Haunting pict-
ure of gaily CARRIED ladies, but these
gave mere suggestion of the magni-
fcence inside. There, shown on the
young women who had been engaged
to play the role of models, were all the
latest creations of the fashion design
ers of the world. Magnificent furs,
loaned for the occasion by the whole
salers from whom our local merchants
get their orders, splendid automobile
outfits, sport suits, dance costumes,
afternoon frocks, reception gowns,
everything in just the latest style and
strictly in accord with the dictates of
good taste, were there.
These bills will change every night
and on one night this week there is to
be q complete wedding party presented
on the stage, with the gowns of bride,
bridesmaids, mother of the bride,
guests at the wedding, the proper suit
for the groom, his best man and others.
If there be any.man who is bordering
on just what is the proper attire for
an afternoon, night or morning
wedding, he has only to go to the
style show and find out, just as his sis
ter will. Miss Eleanore Casey, who
staged the show, has studied the de-
tails of the proper costume for these
events and many others.
The "show" proper opened with a
grand parade in which appeared the
gorgeously uniformed Eagle drill team,
the iaunty cadets from the United
States Naval Training Station, Miss
Clarke, professional circus rider ON her
high school horse, the dainty little
dancing girls who were later to give
exhibitions of their art, professional
clowns, dog trainers and their wonder
full dogs, the boy scouts, the wire
walkers and two handsome local lads,
sitting their frisky Shetland ponies
like couple of Indian scouts, and
others
The United States Naval Training
cadets were first in the ring with
drill and they were roundly applauded
when they had gone through their
manual of arms, not emitting firing
blank charges of ammunition This
will be repeated tonight Then came
the Eagles in their zouave jackets
and Turks trousers, drilling with the
mechanical precision of squad of the
kaiser's infantry.
Miss Clarke then rode her prancing,
spirited horse into the ring and to
music, put him through tango and
other steps, allowing him to gracefully
courtesy after receiving applause, and
then ended her act with the pretty
homing pigeon stunt, in which the
snowy birds, released in different parts
of the hall, futter down and light on
her head and that of the horse. A
little white poodle also has share in
the act and when the horse holds up a
hoop, the little dog jumps through
The clowns have some good acts
which are in progress while Gununzio
the italian concertina player, gives an
exhibition of how much music there is
in the finely made concertina which
he owns.
1t was when the little dancers, train
ed by Miss Dewey, did their pretty
acts that the house was unrestrained
in its applause. There was one little
mite, scarcely as big as minute, who
danced the Irish jig with all the fire
of the true Hibernian. Another fairy
like little person in fluffy yellow tulle,
did q pretty solo dance, while eight
others, dressed in artistically eolored
costumes, trinped some delightful steps