Show PUBLIC NUISANCE NO 1 GOES TO CIRCUS AND IS SO AMAZED D SHE FORGETS PRANKS By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Every Every year there to has be a atory etory by a reporter who KM taken some lome kids preferably ur urchins chins to the circus It Is a fine old Journalistic ritual ll something like the annual reprinting of ot the celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- Yes Virginia there is II a Sant Santa Glaus Claus editorial f W UtI I. I took Jane Withers to the circus It seemed like a good idea at atthe t th the time This will be s something new I thought hought A Hollywood star cant can't cantle tie le much by tarnished and co cotton ton tights She got a week on her personal appearance tour tour more more than a dozen circus stars receive In Chicago more people flocked to see sec her each d day y than will come to thI this tent show how Shell Shell She'll be bored to death Miss Mils Withers also aiJo was squired by byJ J Jackie S Sean Searl arl an attractive young man wearing long pa pants th and the assurance assurance of ot 8 veteran a.-veteran movie moyle a actor tor I I- I Just tagged along but was accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac very gra graciously So was a photographer who attached himself him him- self to the tho party Screen ch children never get a chance to have fun by themselves Mild md Start Jane wanted to dash for the menagerie tent Jackie who owns two hunters and rides them in shows hows wondered if it he could see sec I ir i r bL Whit What a contrast contrail in iriS emotions J Jan Jue n Withers f famous mou Imp mp of Hollywood just juit bubbling with enthusiasm over the circus CIrCUS IC act she's seeing arid and Jackie Jackia Surl her blase bias escort escor apparently bored and md disinterested hadn't done an anything to Justify the title of pf her next picture public Nuisance No i. i L Didn't even cven slip clip an elephant a plug of ot t tob tobacco b cc co though I thought the thc bullman looked a little Uttie concerned when he recognized the youngster When we finally sat under the big top waiting for the M Magnificent cent and Kaleidoscopic Inaugural Pageant Jane provided every evidence evidence evi evi- dence of ot delighted bewilderment Confided excitedly that she hadn't seen acen a circus In four years always had been working when one came cameto cameto cameto to town I knew right then thon that my little bored rich girl girl story Wasn't going to pan out Elephantine Joy The grand grand' entry began and Janes Jane's eyes and mouth grew round as as' you have seen them on the screen and she ahe squealed her throaty ecstatic little squeal Oh Jack look at the elephants Oh Mr Harrison look at the pretty girls on the elephants the horses hones But first they had to pose pose for pictures eating cotton c candy buying tickets and all that So far tar the Imp of Hollywood pUshed as one who had played m n Look at the monkey on the elephant elephant ele ele- dc- dc Th That's ts t's Joey the movie chimpanzee chimpanzee chim chim- panzee pance Ive I've got his picture In my Jane didn't like the lion act at atall t taU elI all she ahe was sure they were being hurt by tho the cra cracking whip She paid attention to Mabel Stark and her cage of tigers because the adjoining rings were full tull of Shetland Shetland Shetland Shet Shet- land ponies D During the big lion and act she he he signed autographs for small neighboring admirers She shrieked over the seals seab and gibbered with de de- de- de light when clowns belabored one another with exploding clubs and mallets Child Ambitions She spotted Wallace Beery nearby nearby nearby near near- by and called to Nick Foran who came and sat cat with us She guzzled oda soda pop and wistfully wondered If aho sho could have bave lave a fuzzy monkey on ona ona ona a cane She could She decided to take lessons in bareback riding and maybe wire wire- walking These wire-walkers wire were not ahe she thought quite as nc om- om the same bill with her in Chicago A rider with great fanfare put his horse over a a. four-foot four hurdle Jane asked Jack if he could do better than that Mr Sear Searl who rides in open classes and takes el eight h s successive c. c e lve four foot ou foot Jumps jumps I admitted that maYDe ne no COUla U Untiring Enthusiasm She posed with clowns with Mabel Stark and with equestriennes and ennes-and ennes and got their autographs We stayed for the tho wild west show abow And w went nt to the sideshow Jane traded auto autographs phs with the tho fortune teller tho the midgets and the I inake nake charmer She wanted the Leopard Mans Man's autograph but ho he couldn't write She went into a along along long IOD business conference with a 8 concessionaire and traded her mon mon- on key for a on doll From the Harlem Belles who danced she picked up a few new steps which the Hays office wouldn't like Ilke She tried to w wheedle professional Ional secrets from the fire ire Along about dusk when the last lut stragglers were turned out of ot the t tent we WI went home I Iw w J W- W te ur ru 47 A C v it W I t 0 4 t h 4 J i 1 t L 1 That elephant expects the r regular gular offer o 0 of f circus visitors but with Paul Harrison holdi holding g the trunk and J Jane ne Withers offering a peanut there may be some unexpected prank up the tha sleeve of that famed mi mischievous little ittle actress This scene revealed Janes Jane's wholesome enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enjoy- ment mont of the circus that came to Hollywood recently t |