Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-20
JOHNNY ]. JONES
CARNIVAL OPENS
Big Crowd Attends First
Nights Perform
ance
HIGH CLASS SHOWS
SIT For The Entire Family" is The
Slogan and Company Lives up to
This Standard

The potent factor responsible for
Johnny J. Jones Exposition securing
the contract from the local lodge of
Elks to furnish the amusement portion
of the spring festival cited by the d.
rectors in three prominent characters
tics, always dominant in the makeup
of this organization, namely, cleanli-
ness, square-dealing and quality, and
every person whoever attends any
function wherein Johnny J., Jones
name is attached readily becomes
cognizant of the reasons for the phe-
nominal success of the stupendous en-
terprise.
Ed. r., Salter, the Jones publicity
mans reports coming from Orlando,
Florida, the winter quarters Of the
jones aggregation, easily persuaded
one to believe that the patrons of the
Elks Benefit Fund would this year
be regaled with list of attractions
far ahead Of The excellent programs
cftsred n the past seasons and our
visit to the, exposition grounds last
night proved that. Mr.. Salter was
truthful press agent. Some of the
I leading features include:
Johnny j .5$J,ones trained wild animal
exhit:tion which in itself is eqgal IN
b5th size ,lnd ENTERTAINMENT TO the
average circus. exhibiting Admiral
Dewey with twelve Nubian lions, one
of which rides horseback around the
ring Of the arena under direction of
Princess Dixie, while Lieut.. Houston
performs with lecpards and pumas,
Captain Harry Mooney has herd CT
elephants in series of stunts: Mile.
Bootzic Herd amuses with many
johnny j. Jones famous mitgets,
Prince ,Dennison, Princess Marguc-
rite, Baroness Leona, and Duchess
Saiona, remain as great "a drawing
cards. Is
Maybelle Mack's high. school mules
Imagine asmule, accredited as beng
the most stubborn Of the an!ma! crea-
tion being trained to do all sorts of
acts only expected when performed
by quadrrpetls reputed to have extra
ordinary intelligence. Under the dl-
rection OF handsome and ,ylvaclous
Miss Mack these mules. appear abso-
l,utely classical in its environment.
Miss Eta Louise Blake has 4 spec
taeular& production properly titled
"Superba."' 1t introduces pretty south
efn misses in tableaux de: art posings.
as the original models in paintings,
not of the tawdy living pictures
type.
"Evcrytbing%} is, the unique title
given to the attraction presided over
by Mr.. Harrison Jansen, the foremost
transfolmist of the day. In this won
derful maze Of egyptian mystery y2u
look and you see things that you feel
and know are impossible and still you
realize that it is all true as far IS
ewes can give clue to truth.
Stella" was the leading feature al
the San Francisco Exposition, as we'll
as at St. Louis, and made most pro-
nounced hit w5th Johnny ]. Jones En-
position over the Canadian Circuit
last season. Stella is work CT art
quite beyond the barN Of human de-
scrptcli.
The pacemakers." William J.
Coughlan has engaged Mile Marie,
late vivandiere with the Chasseure d
Afrique and heroine Of fashod ia as his
feature attraction i'll auto motor cy-
Gle stadium. Nothing so sensational
as her performance has ever been
seen here. She actually courts death in
her defying the laws of gravitation N
her speed limit, riding an automobile
on an almost perpendicular wall
Others engaged in MIR. Coughlan:s
stadium mclude five of the most fam.
ous motorcycle riding experts Of the
country.
"The Hell Ship is as ponderVu:
locking as a dreadnought. 1t IS a ncv
attraction designed and operated b,
Mr.. Robert Mcpherson. not as moda
but a practically working craft of til
deep sea and when once aboard y7u