Rumbling into town after a winter’s hibernation at Sarasota, Fla., the trains bearing the elephants, camels, clowns and men on the flying trapeze who comprise the Ringling Brothers – Barnum and Bailey combined circus will unload their cargo in the Mott Haven railroad yards this (Sunday) afternoon. Opening day is Thursday afternoon at the usual April stand—Madison Square Garden.
Directing operations connected with travel, rehearsals and performances this season will be Samuel Gumpertz, a Jew, whose official designation is manager. It’s an enormous job, but he has it well in hand, according to Dexter Fellowes, publicity director, who is as much of a fixture with the circus as the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
Almost every steamer from Europe brings foreign acrobats, aerialists and tumblers who are joining the big show for the first time. Other striking importations are a caravan of acrobatic Touregs and camels from North Africa and a troupe of sixty horses that traipse through what Mr. Gumpertz and Mr. Fellowes call “a unique free-running routine.”
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