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Show 100 R. R. CARS WILL BRING GIANT CIRCUS Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Add Entire Shipload of Big, New European Features. Arriving aboard 100 double-length railroad cars forming trains more than one and one-third miles long, and made even greater than in 1922 by the addition of many big, new foreign acts, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined will exhibit ex-hibit at Provo Thursday, September 20th. Those who read the daily papers or who keep in touch with . the movie news.reels need not be reminded of the shipload of acts and animals recently re-cently imported by the Greatest Shov on Earth. The remarkable cargo included two compaines of baby elephants ele-phants are now joined with the forty adults of the mammoth herd. There were also 100 more performing horses hor-ses accompanied by Europe's iJreatesL trainer. And many wild animals, some of which have been added to the scores upon scores of trained jungle beasts, while others have become be-come part of the marvelous menagerie. menager-ie. More than a milion saw the mam--io;h new circus of 1923 during the weeks that it exhibited in Madison Square Garden, Xew York. Now ;his marvelous exhibition is touring 'he country aboard five great trains. It is a third bigger than the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show of last season. It is ten times larger .nan any other circus now on tour. Big as is this wondsr circus of 1923 with its more than thirty trained wild animal displays in steel arenas, fully 200 wonderful! schooled horses. 700 men and women Derformers, 100 clowns, and scores of features the price of admission is no more than before. And th0Ugh the trained animal numbers and the immense horse show were circuses in themselves while touring Europe, they are not offered as separate se-parate attractions by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Liailey combined com-bined shows. Instead all are on one I gigantic program. Everything is in i one mammoth main tent. One ticket ; admits to all those and to the tremen-' tremen-' dous double menagerie. There nre more than a thousand animals in th'j zoo of this circus and these include entire families of hippopotami and giraffes. Another remarkable zoological zoo-logical feature is an armored rhino, ceros, the only one known to exist and alone worth S50.000. |