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Coliseum Opening Saturday, April 21 The circus is coming—the great Hagenbeck-Wallace—and, aside from its annual role as the harbinger of spring, the big show opens in the Coliseum, Saturday, April 21st, with its greatest of programs. Yes, this time the circus comes to Chicago for sixteen days, the last two performances being on Sunday, May 6th, and it comes with a two fold significance for it not only brings scores of the world’s best acts and displays, new to Chicago, but it marks the return, after a lapse of eight years, of the old fashioned circus street parade. ‘This most welcome feature will be presented for the first time on Fri day night, April 20th, as the inaugural event of the Coliseum engagement, and is to be an illuminated street pageant through the downtown loop streets. Over a mile and one half of mounted folk, several bands, dozens upon dozens of open cages and dens filled with jungle beasts, and all else that goes to make up a real circus parade, is promised. Only the one parade will be presented during the Chicago engagement. “The last of the unknown peoples of the earth”—the piraffe-neck women from Parma will again be one of the astounding treats for eager eyes. Preeminent among the newly im ported acts and displays will be the Jung Trio and the Neopolitan Troup, comedy acrobats; Cuse Odell, thrill ing aerialist; the Great Neiss Troupe, trampoline stars; the Emelios Troupe, unique balancing exhibition; the Four Marvels, world equilibrists; the An gelo troupe of sensational acrobats; the Misses Sandrina and Cossetee, bereback riding stars; Miles, Margar et and Pauline, aerial-ring stars, to gether with the Arleys, the Four Polis, and the Jardys, in thrilling high-perch displays. Other renowned highlights will in clude the famous Flying Cadonas, with Alfredo, world’s only triple somersaulter to a catch, and the Fly ing Hills who head the high and lofty trapeze contingent; Bombaye, “The Man from India,” famous star of the bounding-rope and his troupe of India dancing girls; the spectacular Mid- Air Ballet; the Iron-Jaw Aerial dis play, and Cheerful Gardner, ‘The fluman Pendulum.” The famous Hagenbeck-Wallace menagerie, the largest on tour in the world, now boasts of the second baby giraffe to be born in the United States during the last fifteen years. Baby Helen was born less than two months ago at the show’s winter quarters at Peru, Ind., and when born weighed ninety pounds at birth. Look for her when you visit the menagerie.
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Riverdale Pointer
Riverdale, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 20, 1934
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