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LAST RINGLING IS STILL CIRCUS MAN' (Gels Big Kick Out of Every Per-? Tormance He Sees New York, May 10 — The last 0{! the seven Ringling boys — circus men all—has been intimately iden- tifird with the “big top™ for some two score ycars now. But he still gets @ kick out of cvery Ringling| Frother-Barnum & Bailey per- | formance that he secs. And he sees many, The last of the seven Ringlings| is John, a man giant of stature, Kindly of eye, and personally ac- quainted with almost every Ameri- €an and European celebrity of mod- ern times. | Ringling might have retired ycars | ®go on the money the circus has snade for him. But ycar after year. | the spring opening of the ‘greatest| show on earth” at Madison Square Garden, New York, finds him per- sonally in charge. For Sentiment's Sake “I like to work, and then there's | at Tsinan-fu, destroyed dynamited it. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928 BRIDGES BLASTED IN CHINESE WAR Chinese nationalist troops, now embroiled with Japanese troops bridges in their first retreat from the northern army of Chang Tso-Lin in Shantung province. Picture shows efforts to throw temporary structure across stream after the na sentiment in it Ringling said. “I like to sec to it personally that the circus always is better this year than { last. We owe that to the people out | ! country who patronize us » youngsters and the caravan, and became the u grown-ups both. “By the way have you scen our |Circus kings of t ®ca clephant?” | Sometimes it's a clown, sometimes an acrobat, that Ringling fancies the most as a new circus acquisition. This ycar it's the sca clephant, a weird, hulking creature from the Arctie, “The Hagenbeck people captured |19 it for us” he cxplained. “We had| heen after one for more than 10 years.” Family of Showmen There isn't a more remarkable in- stitution in the country than the show which the last of the Ringling: owns, and there aro few more e mantic stories than the story of its growth Faraboo, Wisconsin, was its bi ith- place. The seven Tingling boy John, Charlie, Al Alf ¢ ]!"n another and a reme o Henry Ford 1.R onc Thomas A. Edison is one | until the time pulously to col I strength, ¢ his wally, o all time “Every time I look at a warvel at what he e world, ns r ances harne o people i tors Lurel in Baraloo. About 1852 they &Auvtfrl\ a small wagon show. Roads were poor in those days, but the Ring-|Varents and Teachers' lings bought the best horses to h-l had and missed few engagements. | Charlle was responsible for the | #rst Ringling menagerie. Tn six years they were able to buy | va'lread . With Charlie as gen- |y eral manager, the show prospered. | 1 Year by year they presented mmf\ ainment at the annual me #nd better acts under bigger and|the Parents and Teachers' bigger tenta. tion of the Smalley school In 1536 the Ringlings felt hiz| The program wil lopen w Frening. Mavo o M Aress l Shampoo ».- Rugs at you will include 2 combir noved one of ti that now only He expeets to stick to it | ris] he greatest man * Ringling said. MAYOR PAONESSA GUEST AT Assoctation | 4i4 1o pay, Assembly Scheduled for This Paonessa will and the will furmsh the < musical prog: Soprano solos by Miss Edla ccompa r : violin solos ndisputed | 1 Miss Ger- multipli- | % s; soprano solos by nard, accompanied by oncssa’'s falk will follow | wd the school orchestra will play a —or “1;'vlrru0n which will conclude the Sims, Melt- | und, accompan- | me for him scru- ‘ vening's activities. physical ]_ __iLawyer Brings Suit 19Rtle Against Dobrowolski “Troubled Waters” would be an ¢vic | APpropriate tune for the mucl | tronbled William Dobrowolski, who {has been caught in the swift cur- [ vent of legal actions brough [T by various p me n elec has done Holy Dobro- EETING ‘Vh iant en- kerman m‘ ll'm" accordin today in the city neh the plaintiff claims $200 dam- ages for services rendered. | There is a lhnit to tha height Etude | which a balloon may ascend. 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