| Show I CASTLES IN THE AIR MEMORY TV sometimes plays mis- mis M chievous pranks When we said said yesterday that Old Dan Dnn Rico sang sang- Castles Castle in the Air it was a a. l lapse apse of memory For Old Dan Rice so called reverently was a n showman in the time days of Van T Amburgh Yankee Yan Van kee keo Robinson Ed Kinkaid P. P T. T Barnum and Adam traveled trav tray cled with ith their caravans over time the country highroads In all pro probability ability there are a number number num num- ber of men and women in Salt SaIt Lake who when they were boys hoys and girls I Iback back past cast ast waited up long past midnight midnight mid mid- night to see seo the circus go by byl on its way to the next town first tho pole pol wagons a ons time the glittering baud bant chariot covered ered with canvas anc and piled high with luggage the tho animal cages also niso covered noW covered now and then a a lion would yawn a or roar both equally equal equal- ly terrifying to tho the little folks huddled against the thie fence and finally finally final final- ly the one and only elephant a n. whopper though and about the thc only part of the tho eara caravan van that was no not under cover trudging along with the tile mahout t riding alongside as silent as though the time Arab Arah was actually stealing steal steal- ing inz away with folded tent Dan J I Rico was head and front of that sort sortI I of caravan an It was Old Sam Long who sang sangIe Ie Castles in iii tho the Air known in his da day as the silver tongued singer of circus minstrels minstrelsy Ho lie called himself Old Old Sam Long Long when he made his little farewell address a anti and made the time audience circled about the time arena feel that it was parting porting company with a areal areal real friend It was not like liko the Sara Sam Bernhardt farewells for Old DId Sam Long was about 70 when hc he left leCt time the sawdust arena forty years ears ago ngo and Castles in the time Air was his imis farewell farewell fare fare- well weB song Tim Th Tim vi i l ll lile U IJ white horse at one side of the ring j I tho limo stately ringmaster gathered g up the lash of tho the whip he lie had been cracking so i vigorously seeming scorning I sometimes to cut the tender lender anatomy of time the ubiquitous joker without mercy mercy mer- mer I cy cy then removing his high silk ilk hat lint hatto hatto to respectfully make tho the announcement announce announce- ment meat the tho violins and soft voiced in instruments instruments in- in in the bund sounded the prelude and the audience sat in rapt attention throughout time the song The last stanza began thus II And And there was General Washington 1 some soniC people call him George j and concluded con con- eluded Ho was a n man who never built his castles in the time air How lIow many ninny in Salt Lake ever er heard tho the song And who has a n copy cop of it 1 1 |
