The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-02
Feminine Artists With Carl Hagen
beck-Wallace Shows Bare Their Ev.
ery-Day Lives TO Girl Reporter.
lBy CYNTHIA Grayl

| The great Hagenbeck. Wallace circus
was playing its annual engagement in
| our city when / was assigned to get a
I circus story.
Go down to the circus and get a
story about the woman performers.
Something good. you know-something
different" the city editor said
When the big chief" said something
good" ! knew he meant IT,
When I reached the lot" Ocircus
name for show grounds. the parade
was just returning order came from
chaos. And all was In readiness for
the performance. Seats and stands and
rings and trapeZes were in place. and
every man was at his post The cages
were dragged from the parade 10 the
menagerie tent. The horsee We're led
TO their stables Ponderous elephants
pushed the red and gilt vehicles into
place.
Two men We're proclaiming with flu.
ency and skill and oratorical effect the
wonders Of the side show, and a row
of huge banners added weight TO their
discourse Pictured by word and brush
was the wild man from Borneo. the mid.
get. the boy giant. the fortune teller
the snake charmer and the others who
made up the collection Of oddities and
the group OF negro jubilee singers. The
band thumped seduct!vely insNe. and
frequently. as an evidence OF good faith.
one Of the freaks was called TO the
front Tor a moments survey. Doubts
vanished and the crowd hesitated no
longer when suddenly the piece de
resistance was brandished aloft. i'm.
paled on a slender iron rod. raw
hunk OF beef II was 10 be the wild
mans dinner,
Acting upon suggestion. We went into
the big top 20 take a look at the big
show which was just commencing. a
great mass OF humanity was struggling
20 reach seats Lemonade and peanut
vendors were onto their duties The
day was immensely warm. First il
seemed as II only salted peanuts were
sold on the seats. And Il is needless 10
say, when the boys with their trays
Of pink lemonade came around later
their business was good.
Tournament Was On.
The inaugural tournament was on
The press agent said II was "spectac
ular pageantry, geologic equestric, hip
podromatic ana indicative Of the limit.
less resources Of the colossal consoli
dati0n OF the circus chieftains together
with comprehensive, Kaleidoscope
and illustrative review Of the mighty
wonders Of the small boys pastime-
the circus-and everyone is young again
when the circus comes 20 town.
The ringmasters whips cracked mer.
rily ponies and dogs and growing
beasts OF the forest showed the result
Of patient training and teaching; slack
wire equilibrists. head balancers and
daring horizontal bar performers were
innumerable; living classic statuary
pleased the eye; thoroughbreds engaged
In a tango contest; "A trick bicyclst
rode a bike down a ladder from the
dome OF the great canvas; an eighteen.
year-old girl turned a backward somer.
ault on the broad rosined haunch Of
a beautiful white horse
After a while | went back 10 the
dressing tent. and was introduced to
Miss Dallie Julian, a mere slip OF hu.
manity, who few minutes before held
thousands OF spectators breathless while
she turned somersault after somersault
on galloping horse
The disadvantage under which a cir.