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Show warriors on horseback, amazons whe ride like the Valkyries and resplendent costumes, great ballets and daring performers per-formers with the evanescent talent 01 pantomime triumphant make the Hippodrome Hip-podrome the greatest place of amusement amuse-ment in Paris. Some fair clowns trained bears and lions, tigers, mild ai goats, and some good gymnasts and a family of aerialists make up enough oi a circus bill to keep the early crowd busy and entertained and about nine "Vercingetorix" arrives wiU gorgeous panoplies and scenic assistance from the big stage at one end of the amphitheater. amphi-theater. It is all very inspiriting and makes American reminders a spectacular spectac-ular addendas to Kiralfy shows and the circus look very meek and lowly in distant comparison. A Eight In Paris. At the Hippodrome there is the greatest spectacle I ever saw, and the splendor of "Vercingetorix" warps much of the nobler attempts in theatricals, theat-ricals, says Amy Leslie in the Chicago Record. The new Hippodrome is magnificent in architcture, detail and appointments, and the fine distances, great riders and wonderful generalship of the hordes of red-haired Gauls and athletic Romans, their horses and battles, bat-tles, their tableaux and dances, their chorals and wild stampedes and processions pro-cessions make an ensemble perfectly bewildering and educational. There is nothing of the circus in the performance, per-formance, on the surface of the spectacle; specta-cle; none of the cheap glitter or sawdust saw-dust tawdry imitation. It is as imposing impos-ing and plastic as an opera, and the tableaux, the maneuvers of over 600 |