Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1910 — Vidette Says It Is the Best Show That Ever Came to Town. [ARTICLE]

Vidette Says It Is the Best Show That Ever Came to Town.

The Valparaiso Vidette says that the Hagenbeck-Wallace show, which was there Monday, is a dandy. The pap says: —■— ; The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus deserves good crowds, for it undoubtedly was the best ever seen here, and, with the possible exception of one, is in a class by itself. To enumerate the excellencies is impractical. But the performance of the trained animals was spectacular and thrilling. At the evening show, when the big lion became obstreperous, things looked dangerous for awhile, but the keeper finally cowed the big brute and it went through its act faithfully. “A majority of the acts were the classiest ever witnessed on a local show lot and the performers were heartily applauded for their efforts. The clowning and burlesqueing was out of the ordinary, too, many new and novel stunts being pulled off by' the fun makers. Taken all in all, the Hagenbeck-Wallace shows gave splendid satisfaction here, and but for the scare caused by the scarlet fever story , would have packed the tent at both performances.” There were a fiumber of efforts made by attaches of the show to short change people who were buying tickets. They were exposed several times and made to give hack the money, but in some instances got away with it. The management of the circus is not lesponsible for this, howeverT IF will be a safe thing to take the correct change to the ticket office. Don’t carr7 a pocketbook filled with money, as pickpockets are reported at some places to be following the show. At Valparaiso one house was raided while the family were at the show. Put your valuables away and lock the doors and windows.