Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-31 | Page 10 | Great Circus is Delighting Salt Lakers

GREAT CIRCUS IS DELIGHTING SALT tAKERS LAKERS B Barnum and Bailey Starts Off Iff Well Wen With Interesting Inter Inter- estIn esting Parade I WONDERFUL MENAG MENAGERIE RIE IS IS A STRONG FEATURE Elaborate orate Spectacle Cleo Cleopatra p patra tra Opens the Performance Per Per- The circus parade Instead ad of losing it its Us interest IK Is becoming more p popular pular and d during the the hour that It took for i th the Barnum and Bailey Batley parade to pass down dOwil downif little little- work W was wa-S d done ne if f Jn Jn street today I In any of tho of-tho tho o o offices is es 5 The parade WAS lB full crammed of ot fea feature tures ture It left 1 ft the tho clr circus us gr grounds on U time tim e. e and In every w way y realized the Uie Ion rt-Ion of of- the vast crowd which thronged the t the str streets f features tures Many Jany unique and Interesting we were ere e shown A troupe o- o oC of trumpeters and nd mounted heralds headed the followed by b a military bind band and a e number of ot chariots of ot allegorical significance highly embellished In In gold golden baE relief CA body of knights In tournament array arra mounted upon richly fl caparisoned horses followed The second d dl 1 vision led by bya a band bend chariot consisted o of an equestrian display remarkable for the attractive character of the horses th there re being many candidates for the blue buo ribbon Four I herds of elephants and a a caravan of I I twenty camels were followed by ten tandem tandern tandem tan- tan dem dern dem managed teams of or great beauty t I driven en by smartly gowned o ned equestriennes equestrienne New Feature I I A feature entirely now new and rarely seen except In unusually significant military parades was wu tile the mounted band of some thirty mu musicians on beautiful gray horses Roman Koman racing chariots drawn by eight prancing steeds a number of allegorical floats coats open cages containing lions tigers and nd other wild animals completed the third division j The fourth division consisted of a It mill mili military tary talY band many elaborately decorated I floats several open cages of ot wild wila animals performing Shetland ponies and many t other other Interesting features Afternoon n Program I An Immense gathering filled the great tents i at Eighth South and Main streets to witness the afternoon performance i Elephants danced clowns cut m merry rry Caperes ca capers cappers ca- ca pers peres and the tho hearty l laugh ugh of childhood resounded through the vast arena where fully tuny happy happ mothers mother fathers sisters sis sis sis- tei-s tei and brothers kept the tho little ones company The performance opened with an Impressive Im Im- spectacular pageant entitled Cleopatra Cleopat a veritable tournament of gorgeously costumed people and richly horses box elephants and camels in n all the glittering gUttering splendor of an oriental ori ori- festival Following this thin spectacle twenty odd elephants leaped into the three rings They waltzed d. d walked on their hind legs formed majestic pyramids and interlocked trunks in fanciful combinations combination A shriek of childish glee welcomed the regiment of clowns which broke Into the hippodrome oval o as a. tho the elephants swung un unwieldy bodies bodLes back bade to tho the mena- mena gene Kerie The reign of ot joy jor continued until the acrobatic specialties began when whenever every ever one held his breath at the daring performers who did impossible things on flimsy I trapezes and bars high In the air The Tha little foU folks went Into ecstasies over tho the kl kitten ten like Uke ways of the baby animals in the zoo kindergarten n The I last t 1 performance will wm be bo given tonight to- to night at 8 o'clock doors opening at 7