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Show Utah State Eair To 15e Show Of Shows A show of Shows. This is just what visitors to the 1937 Utah State Fair durlnj the eight days of the big state event, opening September 2,r)th and closing the evening of October 2, will find programmed for their amusement. Assurances that the coming event, now Just around the corner on the calendar, will offer the most outstanding out-standing entertainment features of any .similar event were given in the announcement 'by Ernest S. Holmes, fair manager, that the annual fair horseshow would be combined with a rodeo and circus acts to form one gala grandstand show. For years past the horseshow has been staged in the fair grounds Callseum. The limited capacity of this building for show audiences and fact that one of the nation's foremost fore-most rodeos had been booked led to the suggestion that the two events be combined to give fair visitors an attraction never before offered. Its' immediate adoption means that in front of the grandstand each evening, beginning Sunday, September Septem-ber 20, audiences will witness the appearance in the same arena of ln-termountain ln-termountain blueblood horses and the outlaw broncs of the range. Thoroughbred Jumpers and gaited aristocrats will share in the spotlight spot-light with the wildest of bucking broncs, bulldoggers, and all the other oth-er features of a rodeo at its very best. Add to the horseshow and rodeo events Uie appearance of several noted performers of Uie circus ring and there emerges an evening's entertainment en-tertainment that should prove a classic in amusement annals. The big show will have as ' accompaniments accompani-ments the carnival and amusement row ride and other attractions too numerous to mention. So much for entertainment the best in state fair history. Allotment of practically all available space in all exhibit departments provides just as authentic assurance that displays dis-plays will keep pace, and even surpass, sur-pass, former fairs. All space in the manufacturers' building has been taken for the showing of products of Utah's manufacturing man-ufacturing plants. A number and variety of agricultural and horticultural horticul-tural entries, plus a bumper crop year, means displays of Utah's farm and orchard products at their very best. Livestock, too, will be shown to the greatest advantage. Women's work, 4-H club and Future Fu-ture Farmers of America activities on the farm and in the home, agriculture agri-culture machinery exhibits, fish and game, mining products and mine equipment, rabbits and hares, pigeons, pige-ons, poultry, and a thousand and one displays in the various departments depart-ments all will be at the fair dressed dress-ed in their Sunday best. Special shows, such as the dog show, flower show, will vie with many contests for attention at the big fair. Every department will stage its special contest events. With these and the myriad of attractions will go the music of many bands, the joyous clamor of the carnivals, the shouts of the concession barkers, bark-ers, and all the other attributes of the state's annual exposition. To miss the 1937 state fair is to miss the biggest and best of all such events. To miss it is to erase from the calendar the greatest of statewide state-wide frolics and the educational and informative advantages that can come only from such a combination of big doings as the Utah state fair. |