Judge — June 11, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Drawn bj per—Wuy vipx Wy pe RVeRY sinuTe? CLamexce Rowr ALC DUCK VER HEAD WHEN | HOLLERED YOU STICK TO ONP DIRECTH INSTEAD “Tove ONT “ Reapy or \pout CHANGING YOUR MIND Where the Combines Twineth By Orson Lowen. PEAKING of wearing combina 1 doubt if there's more wearing than this stant combining circuses Have you ever gone to one that tions, one con was not a combined circus or a combined show? Of course you haven't, nor any one else. one to go to it. My idea is that the first thing Noah did after getting the two-by twos safely down the gang-plank was te look around for another circus and me nagerie to double-up with. He couldn't find one, and, realizing at once that the thing was hopeless, he gave it up and turned the animals loose. In the boy’s town I lived in, John Robin son's Combined Shows was the first one to which T was taken, but I can't re- now what it was combined Something, I'm sure. They It’s as inevitable as that member with, have to trunk-and-bag store should be always selling out, but never sold out, just as a circus never finishes combining. Next year when the circus came to our town 1 found that: Robinson's Combined Circus and Menagerie had combined Wallace’s: Combined Mammoth Aggregation of Equestrian Acts and Collection of Rare Zoo-ological Speci mens. Both had been good shows b fore, but combined they equaled more than an cyeful. Not satisfied, how ever, this now World Famous Organi. tion combined itself with Burr Robbins’s Circus, 1 know about Robbins’s Amazing Assemblage of the Wonders of with Noah had one, but there was no Drawn by Aur Wray the World, because he used to winter at Delavan, Wis., ore he moved to Buga boo, or Hullaballoo, or some town that sounds like that, also in Wis. And then Forepaugh’s Stupendous Agglomeration which had just combined with the Walter L. Main Shows and Hippodrome & The World’s Most Wondrous Congregation of Wild Beasts of the Jungle and Forest, and all like that, came along and combined with the mass of entertainment represented by the Robinson, Robbins and Wallace combination. This a pretty good combination, too, you must admit, even if you didn’t see it. LT did. It was great One couldn't sce a quarter of it, But they weren't the showmen weren't Their generous natures revolted at the be was satisfic Fictionist—Wiere ARE YOU GOING AFTER DINN Poet—1 vox’t KNOW wire APTER I've ALREADY DINED wiTH EVERYBODY | KNOW TO GO eK Iv thought of offering to the public such paltry skimpy performance So, when Hutchinson came along with well, what do you think they up and did? Yes, sir, they did. You guessed it They combined with Hutchinson's Cou solidated Railroad Shows and Marvelous Combination of Feats of Horsemanship & Trapeze Acts. Andt his was Aman named Bailey—James A nad been running his United his was a combined show too, but what he had found to combi with I never knew—and had just joined hands with PT. Barnum’s Greatest Show Earth & Museum of Wonders of the World, Well, when Barnum & Bailey's Combined Show turned up what could Hutchinson (combined) but combine again? He did conclusion. Ringling Bros, Combined Shows which had by this time achieved Universally all a undersize is show Daredevil not all Bailey Road Shows poor do Foregone considerable Renowned Glittering Galaxy that sort of thing and Museum Freaks, took Buffalo Bill off his guard one moming when Maj. John M Burke and Annie Oakley and Master Johnny Baker, the Young American Marksman, weren't looking, and they combined their show with his Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. This com bination thing, though, was no novelty to Col. Cody, use he had already combined with Pawnee Bill and his Indian & Cow-boy Show and Sports of The Round-Up. So this show, this prominence er be