New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
circus j Opens
Full Of f I'm
And Glitter.
animals Have Their Easter
Parade a Day Ahead, and
Youngsters Throng Gar
den to See the Wonders
y
Humor Rivals the Thrills
Troop of Clowns Keeps
! Things jolly, While Air
Is Full of Daring Stunts

is Fuu OF Daring Stunts
= Stealing a march on the Easter pa
Shde, the animals. acrobats. freaks and
eaowns made their formal spring bow
IN Madison Square Garden yesterday
Afternoon. 1t seemed as If most of the
Sids in town were there to give them
2 good start on their five weeks iolli-
hcation. The only Indifferent figure in
the Garden was John Daniel, the new
gorilla. In spite of his fame he was
not trundled around in his baby cot
glth the rest of the parade, but lay in
ehe side show, occasionally raising
Mnguld paw to indicate to the curious
That he was alive.
" From the moment the parade started.
With its gay panoply and glitter to the
perry pace. There was the air of
Irst-day festivity that is strongest be-
aore the spangles have begun to fall
SH and the splendor of the clowns has
peen dImmed in the sawdust trail. 1t
may be the same old circus every year.
syith each turn worn threadbare, but
Rne thrills endure. Children spread the
Joyous infection and staid grown-ups
Tecapture a moment of their youth.
: Led by the impressive busbied band.
@9historical pageant gradually unrolled
atself around the sawdust trail Mailed
knights of the Middle Ages and fair
duineveres swept by. Century followed
century and one fashion another, until
he parade suddenly took whimsical
turn and the spooks of. Halloween ap-
speared pumpkin heads and ghosts,
Then came the motley crew Of buff
fQons, with hundred new tricks to
FPeguile the public, and foolishment
.that drew chuckle from the Oldest
and most sedate.
The same fat old policemen, with
scollapsible figures; the same foolish
~get-up that is to be found wherever
The circus tent is pitched. The fifty
sclowns include madcaps, testers, fools,
xwags, jokers, harlequins, pickle-her-
sTings, holy-frights, skylarkers, chumps,
scut-ups, Merry Andrews, Sunny Jims,
Simple Simons and giddy-gads But the
vocabulary does not matter. Clowns
ere .Irs;t,oy, clowns and they are as silly and
sdclightful as usual this year, except
that their wardrobe is more elaborate
~than it ever was before. Mr.. Ringling
wnust have spent lot of time getting
his clowns into their dazzling new
zssspring clothes this year.
> After they had shed their luster
Nalong the trail, leaving stream of
quips and jests on the way, the freaks
sambled in. The we'll known characters
sof other years were all there, and a
'..frw new ones. There were the armless,
..ssthc legless, the three-legged, the mid
~gets, the giants and handsome new
~giantess in a red velvet dress, to say
..nothing of the heavyweights.
: One after the other came the wild |
-man, the skeleton man, the African
.hushman and as many of natures oddi-
atics as the Ringing Brothers and Bar
ssnum & Bailey succeeded in collecting
sih long stretch of years. A special
swClcome was given to cunning little |
sMr. and Mrs. Doll, who are so afraid Of |
slosing each other that the good -natured |
sgiaat has to keep them strung together,
uas it were. The fat men and the fat |
women are fatter and pinker than ever.
The freaks are a happy family, al
{ sthougl. Mr.. Dolls stride was so short |
that he impeded the parade until Mr..
sGiant swung him on his shoulder and |,
I carried him triumphantiy around the
sning.
When the human parade reached it's
: end the animals came along in sleek
sand satiny condition. Ard then the
. performance started in good earnest
with 1.-the, snarling tigers from the
African jungle, man-eating lions and
sEclar bears full of tricks.
cHe VI tne DeSI thlngS Ill Lne CIRCUS
: fhis year is the performance Of tho.
. Hungarian horses trained by Adolph
Hess. They go through maze of in
! tricatc drill and formation with the
q skill of company of soldiers. The
! dogs go through their PAGES with the
) driven air of all circus dogs, as if they
!. hated it but had to do what their mas
: ter tells them. "Toque" rode, leaped
: and juggled like man, and "Chiquita,"
IN Inn
! ing as is possible for canine
A new feature is the Australian out
, door sport of wood choppipg. Stalwart
: Z axmen who have outchopped all their
= rivals in the antipodes have come to
: america to outdo their own records.
{ Theirs is breath taking competition,
: since the race is so close.
Z Acrobatlc feats are more varied than
2 they ever were. According to the cir
pyramiding troupe of whirlwind ath-
: ietes and rapid-firc tumblers" might be
Z expected. 1t transpired that their mo-
: mentum almost cqualcd that of the
: press agents language. One of the
= star acts is Mile. Leitzel, the aerial
: gymnast, who is graceful and daring
& acrobat of the first order. Suspended
( at dizzy heights, she breaks the laws of
B gravity, seeming to cast her body over
Z her own shoulder scores of Zines With.
: put pause. The Act Beautiful shows
i Miss Ena Claren, model of pulchri-
Z tudc and form, as the leading figure in
y the statue poses Of SNOWY white horses.
2 dogs and women
! - Taking it all around. it is circus
> fhat sends the blood coursing rapidly
! through the veins and makes spring a
3 reality. 1t is joyous affair for every
( age and every temperament. Even the
! little dogs try to be jolly about it
i. whether they like it or not. And as for
! the boys and girls-well, it's their
I circus.