Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — TANGOING HORSES [ARTICLE]

TANGOING HORSES

Many Novelties With Carl Hagen beck-Wallace Circus This Year. Many features, said to be new and excellent, wall be presented this year by the Carl Hagenbeck-Wal-lace circus, which will exhibit in Rensselaer Saturday, August 5. According to the advance information the act of Mme. Milyo with her tangoing horses is one of the most enjoyable of the entire hill, because it shows the possibilities in the education of a horse, which appears to have almost human sense. This woman has taught her horses many new- steps in their dancing act. Nearly four hundred performers a>-e on the bill and they perform their acts on the ground, on a stage and high in the air. Among the acrobatic and riding celebrities with the show are the Six Wards, Gladys Gorman, the

Eugene troupe, the Cottrell-Power trio, the Nanking troupe of Chinese aerialists, the Six Cevenes and others. The leading bareback rider is Oscar Lowande. Lowande is rated as the most accomplished bareback rider in the circus profession. He jumps from the ground to a speeding horse’s back, facing the opnosite direction from which the horse is running. The Pow-ells, the Cottrells, in the Julian troupe, Mme. Milyo and others are in the long list of equestrian artists. The circus will come to this city fresh from its winter quarters, where all of the equipment was practically made over into new. A new troupe of performing leopards is one of the new features of the show this season. These leopards- were, bought because the show had induced Mme. Margaret | Ricardo, “the woman without fear" Ito return to her profession of per-

forming with trained leopards. Mme. Ricardo was retired, but during last winter she visited her husband, who is one of the animal trainers with the new show-, at West Baden. Ind., and Air. Wallace engaged her to return to her profession. She was putting her twelve Polar bears through a course of training recently, when one of the tricky animals pounced on her and threw- her to the ground. Her arms and shoulders were badly lacerated before she beat off the animal, but she has kept on with the work, and now has the animals subdued to such an extent they act like tame kittens in her hands. She will show them in the performance here.— Advt.