Grown men started last week when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The Circus had changed to look as fabulously beautiful as they had imagined it had looked when they were children. The Brothers John and Henry Ringling North, their imaginations inspired by Designer Norman Bel Geddes, had enchanted the traditional "Spec," the great opening parade.
No longer was there the usual procession of chipped wagons and shabby cavalry.
Instead the arena was transformed into a nursery lotus land. Even the tanbark had changed color, to...
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