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Show ELEPHANTS FORM A BRASS BAND Greatest Animal Act In the World With Barnum and Bailey Circue. A brass band of elephants is tho latest achievement In the art of train lug animals, it Is one of the striking strik-ing features which will be seen Ogden with tho Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth on Wednesday, Wednes-day, Aug 10. These elephants do not merely make a noise on the Instruments of a brass band. They get real harmony out of them. Tho audience may easily leeognlze their tunes, for they are selected from among the old songs that everybody knows. They play "Home, Sweet Home," and "The Last Rose of Summer," perhaps not as well as Sou6a's Band can, but certainly cer-tainly better than they are rendered by the average village band. One big elephant sounds all the regulation bugle calls as a prelude to a march number. The big drummer uses his tall instead of ... the usual buckskin Ptlck. Sitting on tho head of oth elephantine soloist is a beaut Cul firl. These girl? elng to the accoru-ponlment accoru-ponlment 'of the elephant band. Another act of Importance anion? the animal features ia a. company of Hungarian stallions. They walk into the arena and enter the ring on their bind feet. The ring i3 set to repre-i.ent repre-i.ent a roadside inn. One of the "corses Is the landlord. A second horse enters for food and a night's lodging. The landlord la very hospitable, hospit-able, taking care of his guest ela'j orately. After supper the boarder goes to sleep In his chair. Mine Hot wakes him, lights a candle and shows him to his bed. . Morning comes and the landlord raises a din with tho breakfast bell. The guest lifts up from his bed and listens with d!s-guest d!s-guest at the thought of getting up so early. Then, like a schoolboy of ihe lasy age, ho flops over and goes to sleep again. The landlord comes in and takes him by the car. The guest starts a row and there Is a light. To the rescue of the tavern-keeper tavern-keeper comes a third horse, dressed as the county constable The unruly un-ruly lodger Is hustled off to Jail. Another trained animal specially Is introduced by Winston's troupe of bcals. They ride horses, Jump hurdles play tennis and juggle firebrands and ball3 with more skill than that of any human juggler. While riding horses they tosb balls and swords back and forth among .themselves, catching the balls on their noses and receiving the swords between their fins and tbelr bodies. Then there ia Paula Peters' dog and monkey circus. cir-cus. One monkey Is an accomplished jockey and tho proporty "man" of the little act. The dogs are an ordanized fire department. A sounding alarm brings them in with a full flame-fighting flame-fighting equipment. The captain of the company climbs a ladder and ;cscue3 a poodle from a burning cottage. cot-tage. Charlie the First stands at the hea-1 of the trained animal actors In fad, there is not an acrobat or a bicycle rider amng the earth's professionals pro-fessionals who can pqual this mere chimpanzee's feats. Charlie the First occupies odo of the stag?s for halt an hour, during which time his fea' amaze the audience. He Is the most remarkable animal that ever lived. He devised his own act and learned lit many accomplishments without human guidance. He Is being Introduced Intro-duced by Dr. Buchanan, the English scientist. Jupiter, a beautiful white horse, who rides in a balloon and shoots off fireworks, Is another feature fea-ture to marvel at. |