Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 26 | Circus Arrives in City Sunday

CIRCUS ARRIVES IfKITfSUNDAY Salt Lake City's population wiU increase about 1 per cent in the apace of a few hours Sunday. Reason will be the arrival of the nearly 1100 performers and workmen work-men with the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty circus. Tq Arrive Sunday Advance word received here Friday Fri-day waa that the circus will arrive ar-rive Sunday afternoon and erect Its miniature city at the state fair grounds, where performances are planned for 2 p. m. and p. m. Monday. Heading the 600 performers will be two of boydom's reigning heroes he-roes Clyde Beatty, famous for his courageous handling of liona and tigers, and Ken Maynard, roping, riding cowboy star, who, with his horse, Tartan, is a wild west movie favorite. No circus Is complete In the minds of Americans without a parade, pa-rade, so at 11 a. m. Monday a colorful color-ful street procession nearly two miles long will thread through Salt Lake City's business district Has Few Change Tastes for paradea have changed but little the past several genera-tions. genera-tions. circus men have found, so Monday's street pageant la planned to include all the old-fashioned features fea-tures America has taken to its heart open dens-and ceces of wild Jungle beasts, herds of elephants, .mla anrf aebrae. colorfully COS- turned bowboys and cowgirls, tableaux tab-leaux wagons, clown carts, bands, floats, tally hos and, of course, the steam calliope. The Cole Brothers circus, reputed ne of the largest In tha world, carries a mensgerie of more than too animals, and the main gates will open an hour before performance perform-ance time to allow Inspection of not only the menagerie, but also an Indian villags housing the group of redmen accompanying the circus.