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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 29, 1961

Page

4

Shrine Circus Opens Feb 10 at Memorial Coliseum

The El Kahir Temple Shrine circus launches a three day engagement at Memorial Coliseum starting Friday February 10. Produced by Polack Bros the traveling indoor circus features wild animals acrobats clowns and a band led by Henry Eyes. Pat Anthony performs with 17 lions and tigers while Besalon elephants Capt Schreiber's chimpanzees Imperial Lipizzan horses and Jim Douglass' Canine Express also appear.

el Kahir Temple Shrine Memorial Coliseum Polack Bros Henry Eyes Pat Anthony Capt. Schreiber Jim Douglass

Pakistan Converts Rupee to Decimal System

World Briefs report Pakistan moving to a decimal rupee system with 100 paisa per rupee, replacing the 16 anna-old system complicating bookkeeping. The piece also notes Yoh Yusaka Kirihara becoming personal masseur to Emperor Haile Selassie, wolves terrorizing northern Portugal villages, circus acts in Lisbon, a Korean college teaching Japanese, a Jack London anniversary exhibit in Riga, and new Grieg letters/pieces to be published.

Associated Press Karachi Pakistan Tokyo Yusaka Kirihara Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Hans Sachs the Real Hero Behind Die Meistersinger

Hans Sachs, a German shoemaker who died in Nuremberg in 1576, is identified as the real life source of Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger. The article notes Sachs inspired the famed composer and reflects on his influence in German operatic history.

Hans Sachs Nuerenberg Wagner Die Meistersinger

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