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Show TANGOING HORSES i ....Many Novelties With Carl Hagcn- beck-Wnllnco Circus This Year. Many features, said to bo now and excellent, will be presented this year I by the Carl Hagenbeck-Wnllaco Cir cus, which will exhibit In Logan on I Thursday, August 2. According to the advance Information the act of Mme. Mllvo with her tangoing horses is one of the most enjoyable of the entire bill, because It shows the pos-i pos-i nihilities in the education of a horse, i which appears to have almost human sense. This woman has taught her horses many new Bteps in their dancing danc-ing act. Nearly four hundred performers per-formers are on the bill and they perform per-form their acts on the ground, on a stage and high in the air. Among tho acrobatls and riding celebrities with the show are tho Six Wards, Gladys Gorman, tho Eugene Troupe, the Cottrell-Power Trio, the .lv Nanking troupe of Chinese aerlal- ists, the Six Cevenes, and others. Tho r leading bareback rides is Oscar Lowando. Lowande is rated as the most accomplished bareback rider in the circus profession. He Jumps from the ground to a speeding horse's back, facing the opposite direction di-rection from which tho horse 13 running. run-ning. The Powells, the Cottrolls, tho Julian Troupe, Mme. Mllvo and others are in the long list of equestrian artists. art-ists. The circus will come to this city fresh from its winter quartors, where all of the equipment was practically prac-tically mado over Into new. A now troupe of performing leopards leop-ards Is one of tho new features of v the show this season. These leop ards were bought because the show-had show-had Induced Mme. Margaret RIcardo, "tho woman without fear," to return to her profession of performing with trained leopards. Mme. RIcardo was retired, but during last winter sho visited her husband, who is ono of ,'tho animal trainers with the show, nt West Baden, Ind., and Mr. Wall-nco Wall-nco engaged her to return to her 'profession. She wa3 putting her twelve Polar bears through a course of training recently, when ono of the tricky animals ani-mals pounced on her and threw her to tho ground. Her arms and shoulders shoul-ders were badly lacerated before sh beat off the animal, but she has kept, on with the work, and now has tho animals subdued to such an extent they act like tame kittens In her hands. She wjll show- them In the performance here. |