Evening star., 1922-05-14
7OOPERFORMERS
HERE WITH Circus
RingIing Bros .-Barnum &
Bailey Show to Stay ,
!. \ Three Days.

.Yoo-hoo! It's coming to Washing
ton this morning. What's coming?
Why Ringing Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey's combined circus. And it's
! going to stay for four days, giving
Performances at the Camp Meigs
show grounds, 4th street and Florida
avenue, each afternoon and night Of
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Lions, leopards. polar bears, baby
hippopotamus and tigers that ride
horses, hundreds of trick horses-all
are scheduled to arrive at about day
light today on 100 railroad cars from
Philadelphia. where the show con-
cluded weeks engagement last
tevening
Pennsylvania railway officials fig
ure that the first train will reach
Washington about dawn. Unloading
Will begin imm ediately at Benning
avenue. near the viaduct, and the
long cavalcade of red wagons. golden
chariots, heavily loaded vans. golden
and all the paraphernalia be moved
from the trains to the Camp Meigs
show grounds. Those who gather to
watch will see more than forty ele-
plants and catch a glimpse of four
siraffes. 1t is such features as this
that make necessary new menagerie
tent which rs as large as the big
top" of previous seasons. The main
tent of 1922 is the biggest ever con-
structed. and that the circus men may
have Sunday for rent, 1t may not be
erected until Monday morning.
Give Up Street Parade.
Indeed, the paraphernalia and prop
critics are of such weight and size
that the entire morning will be given
over to the task of putting them in
place. Because of this work the street
parade, as was the case last season,
is no longer given.
There are more than 700 performers
with this seasons circnS and fully
half that number of trained animals.
it is announced. Two hundred schooled
horses representing Europe'S finest
equestrian acts are cited as big new
feature, while another includes twen-
ty high school, horses.
The wild animal acts include jungle
beasts who ride upon swiftly running
horses, juggle like humans, perform
tricks of balancing or play at games
with their keepers. The arenas are
time after time filled, emptied and re-
filled with entire troupes of tigers.
lions. polar bears. leopards. pantherst
jaguars and trained pumas, Most re-
markable among these are the mixed
groups of tigers. black panthers and
leopards presented by the woman
trainers, Mabel Stark and Olga Ce-
leste. There are six herds of trained
elephants.
Comedy acts included on the pro-
gram are Pallenberg's bears that
walk upon tight ropes or ride old
fashioned bicycles. shaggy white
ling's troupes of acting seals. Loyars
French poodles. including the whirl-i-
gig dogs, and many trick monkeys,
donkeys, Shetlands, pigs. goats, geese
and pigeons.
Many TrOupes Of Gymnasts.
Among the hundreds Of man and
woman stars are Lily Leitzel, queen
of all aerial gymnasts; Ernest Clarke
and the Clarkonians. in hazardous
casting acts: the Siegrists. Silbons
and Neapolitans. on the flying trapeze:
the Ernestos, Reifenraths. Tarneffs
and SevillOs: the Bagonghi. Rooney
Meers. Bradna and Clarkdon troupes
gymnasts, for the first time introduc-
ing the woman athletes of Arabia to
American audiences; the four Golden
Girls in the Silver SWINGS" an old
groups of statuary horses and wom-
en-, eight of the worlds highest perch
acts and other high-air performers.
The main-tent program opens with
; an Introductory pageant dedicated to
:, 1.-The 'kiddie' you borrowed to take to
the circus" 1t is announced as re-.
plete with nursery tales enacted in
pantomine by hundreds Of story-book
characters. A hundred clowns are
included. -.
Tomorrow's performances will begin
at 2 and 8 pm, and the doors to the
menagerie open an hour earlier-the
same hours prevailing for the Tues
, day and Wednesday performances to
be given here. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned at Lansburgh & Brothers de-
partment store or at the show
grounds Monday morning.