Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1915 — Not Long to Wait for Circus. [ARTICLE]

Not Long to Wait for Circus.

Thursday, May 13, Sparks World’s Famous Shows will hold forth in this city for a matinee and night exhibition, and the rare, unique and wonderful things that have been promised on paper will become a reality. The airy riders who, in diaphanous skirts have been pirouetting on the expanisve backs of beautiful and speedy circus horses (on the bill boards ( will be seen in all the gorgeousness of tulle and seductive smile. The elepthans will copy their pictured acts of comedy and go them one better. The contortionist will proceed to disintangle himself from the knots he tied in his responsive body last year. The acrobatic families will turn dizzy somersaults and the clowns will work off their latest comedy stunts to the great delight of the crowds present—we all like the clowns. The merit in a big circus like the Sparks Shows is in the fact that everything in the show is the very best of its kind. There must inevitably be riding acts, but the riders are the leaders of their profession. There must be acrobats, but the acrobatic artists add aerialists are gathered from the wide world, and are the best that money can procure. It is this superiority in the quality of the performers that makes the Sparks Shows such a welcome visitor.