The New York herald., 1922-03-24
CIRCUS Is ALL READY
TO OPEN TOMORROW
Performers, Human and Ami
NAL. Have DressRehearsal
Tonight.

Madison Square Garden rang and re-
verberated yesterday and deep into the
night with preparations for the OPEN
ing of Ringing Brothers & Barnum &
Bailey's Circus, a onai. visual picture
10 thrill the heart of an impressionist-
whirling human bodies, red. orange.
green light shafts stabbng through the
gloom; sudden. startling blarinSs OF
band music. a weird chorus of animal
voices. laughter and shouts of COM
mand like whipcracks. And diffused
through and over all that curious
aroma of the circus. an olfactory ap-
peal like nothing else on earth.
Since the mighty caravan rolled in
from Bridgeport Monday TO flow into
the Garden and distribute itself with
the disciplined precision that James A.
Bailey invented years ago and that the
Ringlings have improved. 700 men and
women and thousand trained beasts
have worked night and day TO get
ready for tomorrow. Tonight all per-
formers-two legged or four-wil be
submitted to the great test. while John
Ringing stands to one side. scrutiniz-
ing. Weighing, estimating, altering, and
his aids, moving from ring to ring and
platform to platform as the acts como
and 20. add a little here or take away
q little there: slow up or speed up in
vent business or eliminate stunts that
don't seem TO go"
Dress Rehearsal Tonight.
For tonight is the dress rehearsal OF
the greatest show on the we'll known
planet and the people OF the circus are
on their toes. They will appear in their
bright, new costumes and run through
the program exactly as that program
will be given on Saturday afternoon.
and II must be done to the one-thou-
sandth part of an inch of perfect or
the dress rehearsal keeps going all
night long. New acts. slowly perfected
and long rehearsed in private. will be
put on trial before veteran observers.
There are many new European acts
with the circus. agents having combed
Europe for features. Thirty-two novel
ties OF this sort will be offered. There
are trained animals from the best of the
European collections-tger, polar bear.
leopard. panther and bear acts. There
are Nine. Glare and a troupe of perform
ing elephants. two new troupes of edu-
Gated horses. Herzog's and Mayors, and
troupe of Arab women.
Many of tho American circus stars
will reappear. including, Lillian Leitzel.
llt Tic dhu
the Clarks.
Baby Hippo and Tiger Cubs.
In the menagerie section there are
Tiny Toddles. baby hippo. born In
the Bridgeport winter quarters; some
pretty tiger cubs and lion whelps and
even an infant camel or two than which
there is nothing uglier or more interest
ing. Among the Strange People, as the
freaks prefer in their sensitiveness to
be called, there is "the tallest man ir
the world" and the smallest" who will
make their American debut: klikko. the
Bushman dwarf with the rubber hair
Zip. the Human Whatisit, who is the
oldest freak in captivity. having begur
freaking with p. r. Barnum himself
more than fifty years ago. and blue
skinned men and albinos and snake
charmers and sword swallowers.
Down in the basement are the wares
OF many great vans. with forty-one Gle
plants swaying at their picket ropes
and reaching out great curling trunks
for peanuts, the Zebras and the squeal
ing, roaring, barking beasts OF five
continents.
So far as New York city is concerned
spring officially begins at ! 7. NJ. to-
morrow for then the doors Of the circus
swing omen.