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kwEquestrienne of Renown Among 60 Riders With Famous CircusBOSA BO SAXiIND.Tt's the circus that Is the question of the hour, at least for the kiddies—and who is not young again on circus day?The broadspread and flaming announcements have, no doubt, prepared you for thlt;* advent of the big Hagen-beck-Wallace Circus, with its many spectacular allurements, not the leastof which is to be its ‘’gorgeous” street pageant the opening day of the show.The numerous and stretching whitetops, a veritable city of canvas, as oneis assured, will appear in Hammond on Saturday June 22.Tour circus man Is always plentifully supplied with promises, as well as adjectives. and what he, the Hagenbeck-Waliace man, does not put forward as a fascinating preface to this flrst-of-the-season “carnival” is not to be foundin the literature of circusdom. ft ts to4B;be bigger, better and more stupendous than ever, of course, ana with an equipment new in everything but the tima-tried and time-honored title.Among the go riders is to be MissRosa Rosalind, a young woman o: real renown as a horse rider, her Crcus forebears dating back as far, almoa, our old friend Sleary of DickensThere are to be score? of other daingequestrians, with Ftill others who reto show the mazed onlookers evgy feat ever presented within an areb and some that have but recently be*, accomplished under canvas.The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus repre sents an expenditure of $3.onn.nno. The employees with the show numb°r about 1.000, In addition to 108 advance men. The big show travels aboard three of the longest trains ever usoH by a circusorganization. In the daytime twenty-two tents, which cover twelve acres of ground, are used to house the tented city. A gala, golden, three-mile-long street parade will be seen on the downtown streets at 10 a. m. ^the morning preceding the first exhibition. Doors to the big show will be opened at I and 7p. m. The performances begin an hourlater.
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 14, 1918
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