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Show CIRCUS PERFORMERS INTENSELY INTERESTED IN GREAT WAR di di S J EACH COUNTRY INVOLVED HAS CHAMPIONS UNDER BIG TENT " ! " . ' " THE conflict of nations in the big circus tent No 1 Anna CemigiUa, Italian peasant girl who is an Italian girl out of costume as -weU as to galla of the peasant girl She is a native of Naples No 2 Fred Bradna the French arenic director to whom falls the tasfc or resvrf ' among the twenty seven nationalities with the show No 3 F-osa Balogh, Hungarian girl, who ha3 responded to the call of her c"ntry t lndi show next week to become a nurse in the Austrian army No 4 Baron Paucci, the Belgian nobleman, and Fraulein Maria Brunhilde the Digs vidua! circus supporter of the kaiser No 5 Johann Ducander German war lord of the circus 1 Twenty seven Nations Rep resented in Barnum & Bailey Show 0 WHERE m th s country are the European war developments be ng d scussed with more eager av d ty than in the dressing roon 3 of the b g Barnum & Ba ley c r cus where gather daily representat vos of t venty seven d fferent nat ons E ery country nvolved n strife every country affected d rectly or lndireotlv and n ore than a score who are watcn ng and wa ting have sent the r men and women boys and g rls to the tents of the famous amusement inst tut on to dumbfound Americans w th feats of skill g ace and dar ng A reporter for The Tr bune made the tr p to Ogden yesterday and spent an afternoon n th s congress of rel g ons and Tower of Babel He found nearly 500 performers com ng from twenty seven parts of the world and rang ng m color through, the wh tes blacl s browns and yellows engaged n fierce but fr endly arg ment over the war and ts probable outcome Even remote Iceland contr buted a quartette of animated ad herents to a cause Ninety Per Cent Foreign Although the Barnun & Ba ley c reus s a pecul arly any tyc cally Amer can nst tut on more than 90 per cent of its performers and spec al sts are fore en In Europe the struggle for existence is so sharp that people will attempt ex plo ts which ntperil life and 1 mo and which no Amer can would think of un dertak ng m order to fit themselves for employ below or aloft in the Barnum & Ba ley tent The task of pres ding over the aren c departn ent of th s colossal c reus would seem to turn sh ample act v ties for one man but add to that job the offices of The Hague tribunal and you have what Fred Bradna has to contend with Mr Bradna s a Frenchman and private ly he s of the op nion that France and her all es will be successful n the pres ent European affa r but beneath the can as of the performers tent the equestr an d rector mVst needs be the d plomat c mediator -when the war talk becomes too strenuous In sp te of the true patriot sm d s played by these people of many nat ons there is also a sp r t of good fellowsh p that is impelled by the b g famly1 spir t wh ch predom nates m the cir cus L ttle Rosa Balogh the Hungar an girl who lea es w thin a few days to return 'to her nat e Austr a Hungary to become a nurse 3 noth ng less than the dol of all the great c reus fam ly She w 11 o n her sw eetheart Paul Pane, of Budapest who is a regular in the Aus tnan army Giantess for Kaiser Wh la the Germans n ay be outnum bered by some of the other warring na t ons there s no doubt ng the quest on that the ka ser has the largest individ ual supporters m the c reus forum There s Fra le n Mar a Brunh lde. the Santess of the s deshow and Johann ucander the German war lord of the eq estr an department Johann has son eth ng on h s brother performers when t comes to d scuas ng interna t onal affa rs for he was at one t me employed as tra ner in the royal stable of the czar of R ss a 1 m n ature n s ze and also typify ng a small nat on Baron Paucci of Belgium the Tom Thumb of the s de show 13 by no means a small art cle when it comes to a d scuss on of the relative strength of the European coun tr es Yesterday was a day of great re jo c ng for the baron for could he not po nt with pr de to the defeat of the large German detachn ent by the com parat ve handful of Belgians! ''o far Mr Bradna has prevented ac tual encounters as a result of the wordy battles fought n the performers tent but he cannot tell at what m nute n ternat onal compl cat ons may result n real war H s valued ass stant. Burns O Sull van who contends that the Ir sh ua y can wh p any nat on on earth ex cept the TJn ted States probably pre vented an encounter whle the circus was n Denver on Tuesday Ranged on two long rows of trunks n the perform ers tent the representat ves of every warr ng nat on were fast working thorn selves up to a battle p tch The Ger mans were the center or a concerted at tack when O S 11 an marched down be tween the rows wa ng an Amer can flag That settled the argument fo the It me be ng to a pontaneou chee went up Another clash was na ow j a ted on the trip from Denver to Ogden when a Frenchman suddenly brol e forth nto the melod ous stra ns of The Mar seilla se Th s t me t was Ducander who interposed an object on The b g German -who looks 1 ke Ka ser "W lliam himself when ready for the da ly street parade is slow to anger, but the song renewed h s tho ghts of that Franco Pruss an affa r of a few years ago He was restra ned before the Frenchman was thrown bod ly from the tra n If there s a t me or place where the European s tuat on is not d scussed around the b g c ty of tents the reporter d d not find that spot in a complete trip through tent after tent From stake dr vers to the h ghest salar ed perform ers there s one top c of conversat on the war Even the men and women who contort themselves from bars and traps m the pinnacle of the b g top during performances probably d s cuss the relative strength of the nav es of the world |