The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-19
GREATEST CIRCUS ON
GOLDEN JUBILEE
TOUR
Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Combined Celebrat-
ing Ringing Brothers.
5Oth Anniversary

The Greatest Show on Earth, Ring
ling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Com
bined Circus--this season celebrating
the Golden Jubilee of the Ringling
Brothers, who fifty years ago began
their triumphal march to world cir
Gus supremacy-is definitely schedul-
ed to exhibit in Baltimore, May 30 and
80.
Outstanding among the almost
countless new features of the Golden
Jubilee gala performances is the most
magnificent opening spectacle ever
produced by this colossus among
amusement enterprises. 1t is an au-
thentic and dazzling reproduction of
The Durbar, the world famous coro-
nation ceremonial at Delhi, India.
The Ringing Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Pageantry, opulent and stag
gering in its immensely, employs over
1000 people and animals, including
fifty elephants in gem studded corona
ton robes and lavish headdresses.
East Indian Marimbo and British I'M
perial foot guard bands. scores of fes-
tival tongas, bearing rajahs and rane-
es, will be in the van of the pageant.
a golden temple, designed by Gandi
Mood of Relhi, ornate ceremonial cars
and gorgeous roval howdahs add inn
measurably to the splendor of The.
Durbar.
Vying with the resplendent impress
siveness of The Durbar is the most
unusual and weird importation that
even the Greatest Show on Earth ever
brought out of the Orient-the Royal
Padaung giraffe-neck women from
Burma. These strange oriental wo-
men, with their incredibly long necks
encircled with brass and copper rings,
carrying sixty pounds of copper orna-
ments on their arms and legs, are I'M
believably aloof from all mankind
They are like no other racial group in
all the teeming East. The rings, sold
cred upon their necks, are constantly
superimposed from infancy until ma
turity, until these sloe-eyed oriental
beauties resemble nothing so much as
the giraffe Never was so sensational
a feature exhibited in the main per-
Torrance of the Ringing Bros and
Barnum g. Bailey Combined Circus.
The Golden Jubilee five-ring, four
stage program features displays in
units of fifty. with the stars of all
lands competing in the air, rings and
hippodrome track and on the stages
There are more than 500 performers
The circus bears on it's four long
trains of 100 double-length steel rail-
road cars over 1900 people, so ele-
plants, 1908 menagerie animals and
700 horses.
forward demonstrating tight wire star
has been recalled from European tri-
umphs to join the Big Show eonstella-
ton OF stars, as has the famous AL
fredo Codona, worlds only triple mid
air somersaulter to sensational
catch. Vabanque. French Teapot
death trapezist is a new star. Mar
eellus' Partisan Flying Ballet the
Uyepo, Yacopi, Danwill, Rubio, Ben
Ham1d somersaulting acrobatlc troup-
es; the Wallenda and Gretona high
wire thrillers; the Flying Codonas,
Comedies and Harolds; the riding
Rieffenachs, Walters and Davenports;
Dorothy Herbert. worlds most sensa-
tlohal horsewoman; Maxine and Mi
Jares, slack wire stars; Zacchini, hui
man projectile; Lucita Leers, aerial
star, and Al Powell, flying bowknot-
these are few of the headliners
among the better known acts. There
are 100 of the worlds most famous
clowns in the Golden Jubilee gala per-
formances.