The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-09

There were LIES family reunions
Monday night, There was almost an
equal number Monday afternoon. They
all took place under the white tops of
the John Robinson circus. IA Is the
custom with patrons of this 93-years-
young exhibition, people who never go
to a circus go to see John R%obinson's
show. There were folks in the two au-
diences Monday who hadn't seen a cir
Gus in years. There were old vets who
remembered when John Robinson slept
on 1920 900 in the ticket wagon during
the Civil war. There were people who
remembered the days of Iblo, who
used to do the clown stunt Of singing
a song in the middle ring when all
shows had but one ring, There we're
people who apparently hibernate, IL
there is such a thing, In summer, until
a circus comes in the fall, and then
paint up and go to the show. A happy
homelike audience 1t was, particularly
at night, when everybody forgot scent
fares. 1920 taxes and laughed and en-
joyed the performance as though they
had all played hookev from school and
had carried water for the Elephants.
Names of families generations old
predominant with the John Robinson
show. Madame Bedini, in Ter high
school menage act. stands out as a
distinctive feature. Nettie Dill, Cecil
lLDWdHud anu JOHn bIllll, III ldTeDdCh
riding. brought rounds of applause at
both performances. /.
Harry La Pearl, descendant of a
family of circus performers dating
back to the Norman conquest, and Art
Adair, a sprightfy youth Of S. sum-
mers-and w~inters-kept the audiences
in a good humor. Harry impers1nates
everything from a hooch dancer 70 the
president Of the United States He
sweats off eight pounds every day and
takes them on again by eating n old
John Robinson'S cook house.
Almost as old as the circus itself is
the Nelson family, but the strait has
apparently not run out, for three 1oung
women who do a wire act anC the
dozen or more who later do tbs old
tumbling act, are physical perfection.
Springs, said he would have cheehully
paid the admission price just to look
at these persistently healthy yung
specimens of perfect womanhJod.
Bill Shakespeare would have haos to
put out a third edition of Venus and
Adonis had he caught a flash Of even
one of these damsels, and after mat
first flash he could have written the
third edition with his eyes shut. / nd
a picture of one OF these girls ant |
lost 1t. If anyone finds 1t an I. o. u.
for So, 1000, 900 awaits them and I would
gladly pay the aforesaid eighth I
had 1t.
Two young women who could pity
halfback for Yale and laugh at tie
whole Harvard team, apparently. b.
tween meetings of the Women's Circls
Foreign Missionary society, do a par
OF mildN HCts. The first, staged b.
Minnie Fisher. consists in sliding 81
feet down a wire suspended only b.
her teeth. The second, by Mile. Lo-
rette, Is the same 2lS-foot stunt, but
this young lady slides suspended by
her hair. II you don't believe 1t, ask
the announcer, who Is about one
eighth as good as Lew Graham, with
the Barnum show. It Is said that
these young women whip three can
vass men daily for practice, but this is
only rumor. Their pastime when not
working is crocheting.
Alb johnson, who for about 3S years
has made the folks laugh, and who Is
the only circus clown who ever stole
= ruart of whisky and GOT away with