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Show GREAT SPECTACLE OPENSJG CIRCUS More Than 1 20n Characters Appear in Barnum & Bailey's "Cleopatra." I When ihe Ha mum F-;,ii!.- "Greel e--t Show on Earth" fisiti this city Saturday, August 31, it will begin its two pcrfoitiianers with the newly added spectacle of Cleopatra," produced on the biggest stage in the world and on-acted on-acted h b tHst of 186U character.. Be-I side? this threat i-aFt there ire a ballet of 850 dancing girl, a grand open choru, an orchestra of 100 musicians I under the directorship of Ifaltii I'.Bondi. late bandmaster for Ihe Khedive r,T t'gvpt. I hcrr al60 55fJ ho. :p, (j C held? of I'lephaut?. caravaos of 'camele and tramlond of special scenery, prop erties and stage devices for the pro ductng of such Sffeota as sand storms on the de?ert, lightning. flooft. mirages, volcanoes in aetiop earthlquaKes, moonlight moon-light and "unrie. There are a stage crew of fifty scene shifters and fifty property men and a corps of fiftv electricians. The realism of the spectacle is perfect. The audience audi-ence looks into the streets of Alexin dria in the da.ys of t.he Ptolemys. Ihe mightv pyramids and the sphinx looking look-ing down from pat .iges. Thi citj . I that time the metropolis of the world, throng- with its strange cosmopolitan life, ilreat temples lift their imposing column? to the skie. The Nile lies in the middle distance .md on its ShOTOS are the pyramids and the sphinx, the desert sands stretching awav m the dil trnve, seemingly for miletv. The spectators learn of Ihe glorv of Isis and make the acquaintance of Cle-opatra, Cle-opatra, whose great bo.auhv shaped the destiny, of onipirr The lanreats of past ages speak from forgotten tombs. The walls of time fall down, and a won drous picture of ancient Egypt, is Feen the Egypt, of (be Greek, the Roihh.ii and t.he Ptolemy, heavy with the legends le-gends of antiquity and the memory ot lost honors, and rich with Ihe reflected glory and splendor of its unbridled revelry. The st.orv of the meeting of Anion; and Cleopatra1 is one of the most re markable tales in history. The siory is told in this spectacle most vividly and with historical, correctness. The great bacchanalian scene following the arrival of Antony in Alexandria is shi.I to be the gre8tst stage enactment, ever seen in America, During thi scene the great ballet fill the st.;ige. Never be fore were so manv dancing cirls seen together. The spectacle was seen for the first time on facll 21 at Madison Square garden, New York city, where the cjr us opened its season. Tt was received with great enthuiasm and accredited wilb being the greatest theatrical, spcct-'icular a nil circus event in the history his-tory of that city. |