The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
ONDERFIJLACTS RAPTURE CARD 0F SHRINE CIRCUS
zaiaera Temple To Stage
 Worlds Greatest In- x door Show

The manner in which the nobility of
 Zamora Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic |. Shrine, has pledged it's support and
 etarted to fulfill that pledge in behalf
 of the Shrine indoor circus, which will
 b& staged at Seventh avenue, from < Eighteenth to Nineteenth street,
 inclusive, nightly, except Sunday, gives
 early promise of an exceptional success
 ultimately to crown the efforts of zamera Temple.
 The response from the Shriners in general is very gratifying to the director general and his co-workers, who believe
 that everything that can be done in | the way of preliminary preparation has
 now been accomplished. The circus committee is determined to make the Shrine circus not only the best enter fainment that was ever offered the pub lie, but to have it the best show that WIS ever sponsored by Shrine temple anywhere. To this end, while retaining complete supervision and control of the | affair, they have turned the technical details over to a staff of expert profes- K 65onal producers of international reputa- |, tion, thus insuring efficiency in this di- xection.
 The show which Zamora Temple is E bringing tJ Birmingham has staged z &Gimilar entertainments in all the prin- cipal cities of the United States and Canada during the past several years,
 recently breaking its own and all other E Indoor attendance records when it en- teffained 300,000 persons at it's engage ment for Aleppo Temple in Boston.
 The records thus established were in eidental to the last two seasons engage ment of the Shrine circus, during which time all the principal cities of the United States and Canada were played. Everywhere this circus performed, local records for an indoor affair were
 smashed.
 The worlds best professional circus
 acts, afford the feature entertainment numbers of the circus program. While | Zamora Temple has contracted with
 professional experts to handle the prac.
 fical and technical details of the circus K the local nobles will have complete
 supervision and control at all times, and will pursue policy of local patronage
 50 that practically all of the money in.
 vested for Zamora Temples production
 will be expended among Birmingham \ merchants.
 k All business in connection with the !. Shrine circus is being conducted in the X Shrine circus executive offices, located X at the Masonic Temple. Noble A. B
 Crull, who is in charge of the office H was in high state of elation Saturday
 over reports made on the early advance
 sale of tickets.
 Although the season tickets have been
 distributed among the nobles but few days, already. many remittances have
 been received by the committee. Prac'
 fieally all returns so far made by the { Ghriners are for the complete first sup ply of tickets. Many have taken out second and third supplies, while pos sibly half dozen or more are working for the life membership in Zamora Temple, which will be awarded to the
 noble selling the most tickets.
 Noble Wiley A. Propst was the first
 to make returns on his tickets.
 But what now looks like record breaking ticket sale for Zamora Temple Is not depending so much upon the star salesmen, as upon the high average of sales being maintained by the rank and file. Apparently every noble has made up his mind to dispose of at least few more than his original supply of tickets The strength" of the ticket itself i: making this a comparatively easy task says the director general. Several nights of high class circus entertainment art what the Shriners are offering the gen efai public for 50 cents. There can bt no complaint as to the high cost O. amusement with the Shrine circus al hand, says Noble Crul.