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Biff Show To Astound Crowds★The Big Show—Ringling Bros. and garnum A £ailey—moying on four long, tail; train* .and carrying 1*00elephants, -1008 menagerie animals, hundreds of horses andCargantua the Great, world's largest and most ferocious captive gorilla, now displayed for close-up views in the menagerie, will exhibit 3m Lake Front—Chicago, July 22nd1 to 30th with its huge big top air conditioned and restyled in rainbow hues-Performances will be given at 2:15 and 8:15 P.M.. the doors opening at 1 and 7 P.M.Twenty-two air conditioning units, installed at intervals around the circumference of the world's largest tent, make it comfortable for the thousands who attend the big show. Drapes and gold tassels, gold and silver poles make the interior something new under the circus sun.The new inaugural spectacle, produced by Charles Le Maire. former designer forthe ZiegAeld Follies, is a streamlinedgeant of jIs titled : Theleant of almost unbelieveable splendor. ItFair and 2000 people and animals take part in its enactment.Terrell Jacobs, renowned trainer, presents the largest group of performing wild animals ever assembled in America—50 lions and tigers in an amazing display.Doorthy Herbert, madcap rider of rearing and fire hurdling horses, back from European triumphs, heads a number with 70 girl riders on 70 Kentucky high school horses, all four-year olds.Under a blue big top ceiling, lighted as is a big New York musical show, the displays of The Greatest Show on Earth surpass all the massed attractions of formerThere is a heavier contingent of stellar European features with the circus than ever-before, for John Ringling North, its president; scoured the Continent With an open purse lari winter. The more important newly imported attractions are : the Great Arturo, breathtaking daredevil andcomic of the high wire; the Pilades. sensational leapers over elephants and camels; the Zerbinis, the Ortans and Faludys. Europe* greatest teeterboard somersaulting acrobats; Albert Powell, contortionists star of the flying trapeze; the Aicardis. jugglers de luxe; the Iwahows, thrillers on the aerial baTs; Hubert Castle, England's wonder comic Of the tight wire; the famous European clown. Albertino, and Lulu mi mous of woman clowns.the horse numbers of the show are extra-and Tamara Heyer featured in new and sensational numbers. Tex Elmlundt again ordinarily appealing, with William Heyer scores with new liberty horse acts.The world WO^ RldMg Cristtanis. bare-back thrillers, with LuctO and Belmonte starring; the two Flying Concello troupes and the Flying Cdtaet®* with Antoinette Concello. only girl triple ioliiersaMter. theWalkmirs. aerial perch marvels; the Torrence Dolores, flying perch wonders; the Pallenbergs and their performing bears; the Rooneys, stellar doiible trapeze artists— these are some of the other outstandingfeatures.A great new horse fair tent adjoining the mammoth menagerie is open to patrons before the main performances commence.
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Bellwood Star Progress
Bellwood, Illinois, US
Fri, Jul 21, 1939
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