Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-29
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solve the business. One time We
wanted 10 use the calliope and clown
section when we were In Englewood
and we learned that the calliope and
clown section had left for Weehawken
that morning TO give an Independent
show. When we looked for the COM
missary department II was generally
over in the next coutny, being filmed
for another scene, scene in which
we were not vitality or victually in
terested.
i. r. Barnum never had a thing on
this show. Barnum played only one
town at time. while this one could
play fifteen and have enough circus
left over 20 entertain a moderate
sized village. The circus spread over
n large portion OF the map. Some
times II focused on a common center.
There were even times when the com
missary department got into the tout
and scramble and when that hap
pened everybody was happy, for
everybody got a square circus meal.
Three Days Without Food.
This Is a disjointed story. 1t Is a
| disjointed circus, that's the reason.
/ When | started to Join this circus j
asked where / could find the outfit
They told me to take a train for any
point in New Jersey and i would be
sure to find some section of It. l
didn't find the kitchen for three days
| When the circus got together for n
family reunion 1t was complete, from
giraffes TO gold fish. The big top was
big enough to cover an audience Of
five thousand people. There were
three rings and the regulation number
Of trapeze and springboards.
| When the show was at home and
Lao at, he -
Jersey, the big top was pitched in the
lot back of the studio at Fort Lee.
From performing seals to stale pea
nuts 1t was regulation circus and
how the good folk OF New Jersey did
enjoy It, They attended every per-
formance. Everybody went to the
show except those absent on military
duty.
The menagerle was a veritable con-
gress OF beasts and birds of the jungle.
Some OF the lions were slightly moth
eaten, but they looked great on the
film. The star lion was named Lum-
beezly. after Montgomery and stones
gorilla. When they wanted this man
eating brute to get busy and cut up
for the camera they either built fire
under him or poked him with one of
those cute little harpoons. He had al
most entirely lost his voice. But the
voice doesn't count in the movies, any
how. Like the superanuated Shakes
perian delineator. he still had the
fierce look. Somebody put tomcat
in the cage and the tomcat chased the
old lion around the cage for ten min
utes; but they didn't film that.
There wasn't any more harm in that
lion than in a verse libre poet. If they
would let him have his way he would
have been the Charles Chaplin OF the
circus film, but he was hired for trag-
cdy, not comedy, so they had to make
him sore five or six times a day by
hitting him in the face with a water
melon or setting fire 10 his tail
The tiger was a beautiful animal
and nearly all day he gave a correct
imitation Of an expensive living room
rug. Excepting at meal time, he
didn't get up. You wouldn't think
there was anything to him but the
skin. When he wasn't performing un-
der pressure he looked like a tiger
whose works had been removed.
Elephants Full OF JOY.
But the elephants were regulars
once an elephant, always an elephant
They were just as coy and tempera-
mental and full of the Joy of living as
they were when they were headliners
and before they joined the hated NOV
les TO do fifteen a day.
They were all baggy at the knees