The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-05

of parade are promised-interspersed
with elephants, camels, open cages
and dens of wild animals, chariots,
bands. mounted men and women ri
ders, funny, grinning clowns and
little of everything else under the
sun stretched out in long review. But
it is under the huge canyases that
the circus folk promise to make all
eyes pop wide-open with the unfold
ing of a program which will present
acts and features 80 per cent. new
| to an Ardmore audience. The show
beauty of design and gorgeousness OF
color and costume, surpasses any pre-
yious efforts. over 1000 people take
part, together with scores of ele-
plants and camels and hundreds of
horses. The pegeant is based upon
the stories of the Persian Thousand
and One Nights and is a yeritable
eye feast of Oriental and barbaric
splendor. After this professional
prelude of richness and color comes
the circus, proper. The elephants are
! turned loose in three rings and have
many new stunts. They dance the
| tango enact military scenes, play
/ baseball and form themselves into
brass band and play in time and
tune upon huge brass instruments.
| Lady Alice's pets, including rats, cats
and doves are seen in an interesting
act The slide for life" is done by a
/ big black cat holding fat white
rat in its mouth and sliding from the
dome of the tent Three Chinese
troupes will give Chinese circus.
| As a climax to their performance
three of the Chinks slide from the
| top of the tent at express train
speed attached by their ques to a
steel wire fastened at the top of
| the centra poles. Did you ever see
| a bear walk tight rope? We'll you'll
see one do so at this Barnum circus
"A huge, shambling creature, who,
after he gets tired walking the tight
rope rides a bicycle. He's a bear!
One of his mates roller skates all
over the stage like a regular Hans
Brinker, while still another is an ex-
pert upon the trapeze. Nine. Mar
celia will offer trained parrots, raw
ems. macaws and cockatOos who dance
and tango ride bicycles, leap through
rings of fire and do all manner of
| unusual things. one Of the cOckatoos
| is JIG years old, and Nine. Marcella
| has raven which has been perform
| ing for 26 years. Lupeta Perea and
/ the dashng Silbon sisters will thrill
| by their audience exploits high in
the air upon the flying trapeze. Sig
nor Bagonghi, the Italian midget RI
der. will send gales Of laughter around
the tent with his comic equostrianism.
/ The Henneford family of English
riders will be seen in Ardmore for
the first time. They are the ac-
lmowledged champion riders of the
universe Ella Branda will present
her trained Russian wolf-hounds and
intelligent horses and ponies. Wells
equestrian balloons and fox terriers
will enthuse the children. A really
beautiful number will be the Artists
Model horses, ponies and dogs-all
snow-white in color-posing with grace
full female models. Thoroughbred
horses will dance daintily with pretty
girls in the horse ballerina. There
will be innumerable acrobatic, equili-
bristic, aerial and juggling features
presented by the foremost experts,
and a small army of clowns will sup
ply the fun without which the circus
would be incomplete. The managerie
is larger than ever and offers the
most complete and varied display of
wild animal life ever brought to Ok
lahoma. Tickets may be bought
throughout tomorrow at the City Drug
Store at regular prices.