Evening star., 1935-09-01

which patrons never will be the same,
Already the psychologists, familiar
from long experience with the enlarg-
ing circle and falling Nightmares, are
treating patients for what they have
Professionally described at "the Billy
Rose or lost-in-the- -lion-house dream"
Mr.. Rose himself escapes with what
he calls, with litter, his sanity by
never going to sleep. Like the butler
in "Once in Lifetime" he expects to
get some sleep next Spring.
The rehearsalS for Jumbo" at the
moment being conducted on three
widely separated fronts, resemble
nothing so much as an Indian Durbar
crossed with the italian army ma
neuverS and one of Elsa Maxwell's
treasure hunts. Some faint notion of
the magnitude Of the enterprise may
be CLEANED from the circumstance that
Mr.. Rose himself takes two full days
in a supercharged Minerva to race
from one scene of action to another
and complete the full circuit. When
Mrs. Rose, who is Fannie Brice, re-
Gently returned from a road tour to
New York to discover what the Great
Mahout was up to and heard an out
line of Jumbo" she commented, Il
knew I shouldn't have gone and left
you alone. You've been hitting the
pipe again." Enmeshed in a seething
farrago of acrobats, wire-walkers. AK
throwers, Ben Hecht, ca-Tenters, taks,
due bills, Paul Whiter,2n ape sales
| men, elephants. ETu-ey rulings and
sword swallowers, r-r. Roses temper
ature is soaring beyond the dreams of
Fahrenheit A test of his blood pres
sure, it is revealed. indicates that he is
eligible for membership in any Repub-
lican club in the land.
You may tell the people that
have just acquired another and more
astounding zoo for their pleasure, the
Hetman of the Hippodrome said last
week. IT could put William Randolph
HearstS celebrated San Simeon con-
gress of jungle beasts in a corner of
it. Mr. HearstS is gentleman's ZOO;
this is on the level. Mr. Hearst's
doesn't have to pay expenses; mine
does. I bought a thousand animals
yesterday up in Vermont and if you
don't believe it, they're stabbed over at
Teevan's Riding Academy in Brooklyn,
along with the horse acts. What do
I know about animals? Not such
much, but I read somewhere that
Ringling's Circus netted a million a
year. 1t may not have been true, but
said to myself that was the calling
for baby Is it true that have named
all my apes after my friends? In a
word, succinctly, no! haven't that
| many friends"
Rehearsals of the various compo-
| nent parts of Jumbo - which is sched-
uled for the Hippodrome late next
month, are going on all over greater
New York The animal acts are at
singing razorbacks, or musical circus
hands, are making night. and day, too,
hideous up in haunted fame, the Union
/ Church in Fortv-eighth street. They've
locked themselves in and the police
and anguisned neighbors are helpless
/ against the frenzied and incessant
plainsong. The non-athletic principals
are having workouts at the Fifty
eighth Street Theater, and it is Mr..
Roses theory that if no one part of
the show knows what the other is
supposed to be doing, they will CO.
ordinate better in the end. Il myself
know what's in rehearsal up to within
+ two hours at any given time" he says.
News of new acts is given to the
maestro by spent runners from the
frontier every so often during the day
At the moment Jumbo is assum-
ing the proportions of civic if not