Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — Warner Shews up the Counterfeit Poor Shows All that Glitters is Net Gold. [ARTICLE]

Warner Shews up the Counterfeit Poor Shows All that Glitters is Net Gold.

There never ws* a truer aphorism than this trite sou ancient proverb: and. In no instanoe can it bolter bo applied, than to the flash 7 tinsolo which many Circuses and Monageries hare adopted, to advertise their paltry, ginger-bread performances. Gorgeous processions, with flaunting banners, gilded chariots, triumphal cars, with half naked, and entirely shameless, women, arranged in questionable tableaux, knights in armor, he., ftc., are brought into requisition to gull the public into tho Idea that the performances under Canvass are on a scale of equal magnificence and splendor. But did their patrons pause for n moment to reflect, they would arrive at the conclusion that these costly outside parades are but ■'springes to catch woodcocks," and that no management using them could give even an acceptable performance under canvass. The reason is obvious. The expense for dresses, banners, band chariots, tableaux, can, housings, trappings, armor. Ac., necessary for these parades, is enormous, and requires every dollar that even the wealthiest manager can apply, leaving n very small margin with which to secure artists their salary, in oase of a disastrous season; pad no performer who makes any pretention to morit will travel without such security. As a natural consequence, their companies are made up of such performers as none else will employ, and whose services con be engaged literally for a song. Thus, every body who witnesses the exhibition is disgusted, and feels that he has beau most consummately swindled. Warner has proved that in a neat handsome turnout he can well throw all such mountebank shows in the.ienr and te, re<e-1 to his patrons a genuine first-class show.