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THE ClPCUS COMBINATION.Ri^glings Purchase tbs Barnum Bailey Show,According to the Chicago Tribune,in Bom of nt ws that will interest not i few of the amusement seekers Is that it the end of the present season, theSingling Brothers, the five boys whodarted out with one railroad show In 1890, will control practically the whole Mrcuslbusiness in the CnitedF States. Uti as the circus is distinctively an American institution, that wl.U mean ill of the groat tent shows in the world.It became known that negotiation* tor thor purchase of the Barnum it ftaMey Interests which had been quiet* y under way for some time, had been dosed. With the shows under thename of the original circus man, P. T.j Barnum, goes the ownership of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and as the fiingilng* already controlled Adam Korepaugh and Rolls Brothers' shows, \ glanco reveals that all of the big enterprises are in their list, M'The Barnum A Bailey Interests and he Buffalo liiU show as welt—the lut* hr has been owned by the former—ft*i*re | u rcfni sed by the Kingllng* fromMrs. James A. Bailey, controlling own*Myl This part of the purchase slso Included almost m great a show which,if ter pleasing even royalty, hat been die in Fmgbo.d during the last year,* Buffalo JEMU^WlId West—the show I hat has interested both continents with its display of frontier life—Is now it Cincinnati. Forepaugh -Sells, as It•ommmtly i» known, fs at Fort Wayne, End* and the Kiugling show, after opening in Chicago and making a tour f the east, is traveling on the Pacific Hmmt. It is expected that the various ibowi under the new’ ownership will retain their several winter quarters In hranous towns and cities, as ttu^ Invest*nent in plants in all cases is large. The balancing of the different attraction# still be begun before the first date of Lhe spring season. If one has a surplus f acrobats and another an oversuppiy *f clowns or hippopotami the two va* rietiea will be “swapped/*General offices of the H fugling shows gill be maintained in Chicago. The ?.Uy Is regarded as a center from which [he management may best handle its Kevcral collet lions of beasts, freaks tnd performers While plans for the next season have not been fully formed, the invasion of Europe, which already has given the warmest sort of a welcome to the great American “three rings/* Is a settled thing. The Barnum /t Bailey frame* work resting there will be renovated ind equipped in the most completeuore of the other shows will be sent tcroee the water.IftitJttIiVIf1*ttf\\trItlt;3iCccliIttIfIia444444nanner. and it is probable that one or 444
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Sep 15, 1907
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