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Show Ladies Enter Wild i Animal Cage Lady wild animal trainers are fast coming into vogue; the innovation was started by Al G. Barnes; with- his men in the army and navy, he cast about for women, and his first protege was Miss Martha Morine, a Bolgianfrefugee who took to roaring lions like cooties to a tramp. Soon she was on speaking terms with onq lion, then a panther, so on until un-til now she is sole subjagalor and trainer of the 30 male Nubian lions that is under her control in the Barnes steel arena. Another lady trainer is Grace Marvel, Mar-vel, who wields a buncn of leopards and panthers, like a parcel of house cats. She is a bit camera shy, but thinks nothing of slapping a panther in the face when occasion requires it. And to jump from one extreme to another, Bessie Harvey, former prima donna of tho Boston Grand Opera company, com-pany, mounts a white equlpago, bursts Into dulcot tonos. and tho answer Is tho appearance of thousands of lovebirds love-birds from all directions. Sho is accompanied ac-companied by 40 choruB girlB on horseback, horse-back, the whole of wmcn constitutes ait equestrlenno operatic oxtravaganzo and tho only one in exiutonce. Of tho 110 sensations with the Barnes circus, there la something to suit every disposition, Tno dato in Ogden is May 4. . ,' ' ' ' r |