Variety (September 1922)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

. - F»hiay. September C, 1022 VARIETY • U &&&&&®®3^^ is a phrase appropriated by circus employees with all circuses. The smaller the circus, the more prone they are to refer to "The Big Show." There can be several "Big Shows," but there can be ONLY ONE i est Show * * * and that should be the choice of every well posted circus or entertainment committee when it comes to t^ Not only is it expedient to procure the BIGGEST SHOW, but it is advisable to work with one that is x meritorious, clean and sure to satisfy. & When you do business with the undersigned you have the benefit of the LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL CIRCUS COMPANY IN THE WORLD & and you further have the advantage of their resources of over - Three Million Dollars . of the immense three ring circuses operated by us has naturally attracted the well posted members of these various Fraternal Orders and we propose to do our best to assist them in raising funds in a legitimate and pleasant manner. ' CHICAGO, ILL. GENERAL CIRCUS OFFICES, • 35 South Dearborn Street OPERATING BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS CARL HAGENBACK-WALLACE CIRCUS JOHN ROBINSON'S CIRCUS GOLMAR BROS.' CIRCUS AMERICAN CIRCUS CORP. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY, is none too big to accommodate the "BIGGEST SHOW" ever produced as a Winter Circus or otherwise. "Some circus performer, attachce or helper" from "The Big Show" may use "theatre, stages, armories, skating rinks," but the IMMENSE COLISEUMS AND AUDITORIUMS of the large cities are none too big for THE BIGGEST CIRCUS ever seen in any building, some of which are even larger than Madison Square. • WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE PUBLIC as it is the public that has made this GIGANTIC CIRCUS COMBINATION POSSIBLE. Its support has enabled us to assemble the most complete menagerie, circus and trained animal exhibition ever conceived. When the units of the public in the form of Fraternal Organizations demand the courtesy of the use of our property and one of our titles for laudable purposes 3> we are not going to refuse them. POPULARITY, MAGNITUDE and MERIT 4> v -i^^4S^^^^I^4^<^4^^>^ SxXkv^O^^MNI^ $ $&&&&$>