The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-18
GREATEST SHOWS
 COMBINED IN ONE
Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Merge Best Fea- lures in Mammoth New Circus to Give Ex- hibitionS Here,

For many years the foremost tent- ed amusement enterprises in America, the famous Ringing Brothers, Worlds Greatest Shows" and the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth" have now been consolidated in one mammoth circus. From the combination has resulted the most re- markabIe amusement institution ever organized
 As separate concerns, the two shows for decades presented the worlds most famous arenic stars main tained the biggest of menageries and exhibited all that was supreme in the realm of sawdust and spangIes Now the best of each has been merged into a single super-circus that has created new epoch in the world of amusements.
 This big, new circus has been named the Ringing Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows. It has been officially catologued as the worlds greatest amusement in stitution-" It opened the present season at Madison Square Garden, New York city, where it was visited by approximately a. million persons The engagement extended over many weeks Yet New York did not see all the circus. Madison Square Gard en is not big enough to accommodate all of it's many wonders. But when the show visits this city it will be exhibited in it's own specially con- structed tents. These are the largest ever built. The great canvas pa- vilion which houses the menagerie Is in itself as large-aS the main-tent of the ordinary circus. In it will be seen practically all the elephants in America. Every exhibit is of unusual size. Where the patron has before been offered geological rarities in single number or in pairs he will now find them in families That most costly and rate of all geological treasures, the giraffe, may be cited as single instance. No less thai. eight of these priceless animals gre shown in one herd as compared with the two, or at the most three here- tofore exhibited.
 It is said that the Ringing Brothers and Barnum & Bailey menagerie may be taken as an index of all else that is to be seen here. A magnificent in- troductory pageant and grand revut, enlisting hundreds of actors great companies of horses and gorgeous parphernalia, opens the main-tent program. This program presents all Of the biggest stars of the arenic world assisted by scores upon scores or others. There are many companies Of trained seals. Three rings filled with performing elephants has, in the past, been considered ample. But with this super-circus there is a single elephant exhibition in which the pon- derous fellows stretch in a line along one entire side of the great hippo drome track. It has been called the quarter of million pound exhil tfon." Just as there are more m-.i and women, more seals and more elephant actors than have ever before been centralized in one institution so are there more clowns, more horses, more ponies to delight the children, more and better trained dogs, monkeys, bears, cats, pigeons, geese and pigs---more everything. The street parade which will precede the initial exhibition here is far and away the most novel ever attempted This city will see the circus Monday July 5.