Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1910 — WILD ANIMAL ACTORS. [ARTICLE]

WILD ANIMAL ACTORS.

Mansions Brute Artists With The Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows. The remarkable and complete collection of trained wild animal actors, comprising the most inportant specimens of zoology, assembled in the wild beasts performances which form an imposing part of the Hagenbeck-Wal-lace Shows, which exhibit here July 30, has never been equaled in the history of the world. No corner of the globe has been considered too remote to make this collection the most unique on earth. Chief among these wonderful creat ures is a hybrid lion-tiger, a magnificent animal of feline grace and terlible power, with all the peculiarities of both lion and tiger, but wearing’the tiger’s stripes upon the lion’s skin. One of the most important groups is composed of two lions, three Bengal tigers, two India leopards, two pumas, two enormous Polar bears, four Great Dane dogs and the singular hybrid lion-tiger. Here, too, we are confronted with the incredible spectable of six different species and the aforementioned remarkable mixture of two of them, each naturally the instinctive, implacable foe of the others, and some of them hitherto considered by the best masters of zoology as wholly untamable, performing together in a colossal steel girt arena, which absolutely ins-ires the safety qf the public, their bearing toward the trainer and oiie another being as amiable and considerate as characterizes the intercourse of an assemblage of human beings at a social function. Impreceptibly directed by a single trainer and of seemingly happy accord and eager unity, these formerly dreaded kings and queens of the seething jungle, the howling wilderness and the remote, inaccessible frozen wilds of the Poles build their skyscraping pyramids, balance with a skill rivaling that of the human acrobat upon barrels, play rollicking games of seesaw; with courteous consideration for the luxurious comfort of their master, form soft living couches of themselves and invite his confidence by opening their terrible, blood-red mouths for the temporary insertion of his trusting head. It would require pages to tell in advance all the startling novelties introducted in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, which, besides the many trained wild animal features, is a circus vastly superior to any organization now traveling.