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1930 PROGRAM

 

DISPLAY ONE

The Little Theatre's Mammoth Three-Ring Circus presents an opening spectacle:

"LA PALOMA"

Featuring Pauline McArdle, prima donna : Margaret Boyd, Helen Horn, Frances Overstreet, and Margaret Wear, Spanish Dancers.

A processional in which the entire performing personnel participates.

DISPLAY TWO

Trained mules presented in the ring and on the track by

Palmer Morris

Harold V. Tanner

Worth Morris

DISPLAY THREE

A comical exhibition of wild swings and funny feinting by those two nonsensical pugilists

Joe B. Pettit and Hobart Nowell

DISPLAY FOUR

A bevy of beautiful misses in an eye-filling exhibition of ballet dancing, staged under the direction of John Louis Koethe and featuring

Christena Blake

DISPLAY FIVE

Parade of Clowns, in which the entire arena is turned over to Joe B. Pettit and his coterie of comical joeys.

DISPLAY SIX

A group of poses demonstrating remarkable muscle control and graceful posturing directed by

Rebecca Thayer

DISPLAY SEVEN

Daring feats of skill and grace on a quartet of aerial ladders

Christena Blake

Eugene Robertson

Henry Siebman

Almus Hamilton

DISPLAY EIGHT

Watch out, here it comes! That screamingly Phunny Phord, piloted by that master mischief-maker

Sterling Pemberton

DISPLAY NINE

Trick and fancy mule riding on the hippodrome track, presented by

Harold V. Tanner

DISPLAY TEN

Introduction of Concert Attractions

Capt. Tom R. Hickman           George Tyler           Albert Bell

Trick and fancy rope spinners

DISPLAY ELEVEN

The Alva P. Shepard Troupe of 10 Acrobats and Tumblers, aided and abetted by the prince of jesters, Felix Johnson

DISPLAY TWELVE

The clowns are back again and Joe B. Pettit demonstrates his remarkable weight-lifting abilities, assisted by Jerry Spence

DISPLAY THIRTEEN

Virgil P. Keel's High Jumping Horses presented by

Harold V. Tanner

Ralph Brewer

With Palmer Morris and his trained mule.

DISPLAY FOURTEEN

Virgil P. Keel Troupe of Bareback Riders, featuring

Ralph Brewer

Palmer Morris

Gerry Murrell

Worth Morris

DISPLAY FIFTEEN

Artists on the flying trapeze making transfers in mid-air without a safety net.  Watch them!

William E. Wingert

Ward Nott Jr.

DISPLAY SIXTEEN

Manege horses in dancing and posing numbers presented by

Ralph Brewer

Worth Morris

CONCERT FEATURES

Trick and Fancy Ropers - Capt.Tom R. Hickman of the Texas Rangers, Albert Bell, and George Tyler

Hawaiian Village - Glenna Fox, dancer : Jack Walker, ukulele

Wrestlers - Dan Duncan and Benge Daniels

SIDESHOW FEATURES

Hawaiian Village: Prof. James B. Piper, magician ; "whatizit", the missing link.