Other circus staff that arrived a dayĮarly included “a number of stage and electrical experts who precede the show Instance on record where the ‘ship of the desert’ has ever been successfullyĪrrived a day ahead of the circus to set up the infrastructure needed to feedĪn enormous amount of people and animals. These beasts draw a huge parade wagon and this is the first Keep the sidewalk spectators in good humor.Ī striking feature of the procession will be the long line of elephants,įorty in all, and a team of sixteen camels, broken to bit and harness driven the Music for the cavalcade and the fifty famous Ringling clowns will be on hand to Six bands and two calliopes will furnish the Will be more than three miles in length and will include all the performers andĪnimals, in addition to the long procession of handsome tableau wagons andĪllegorical cars, filled with pretty dancing girls in gay costumes. Gorgeous display ever seen in the streets of this city, will start from the Parade that traversed the principal streets of each town on the morning ofĪnnounced, “The cavalcade which, it is promised, will be the longest and most From the “Sheboygen Press,” 7 July 1914, page 1. Under twenty acres of white canvas on the show grounds.” From the “Sheboygen Press,” 7 July 1914, page 1. Immediately and within a few hours the big aggregations of world wonders whichĬomprises Ringling Brothers’ ‘world’s greatest shows’ will be safely sheltered Will roll quietly into Elmira coming from Binghamton, over Lackawanna Hours just before dawn, four long red and yellow trains, made up of 86 cars The early morning arrival and events, advertising: Fifty men were needed to handle scenery and specialĮffects (Dayton Daily News, 26 April 1914, page 31).Įlmira, New York during 1914, the “Star Gazette” included a large article about Measures the buying power of $1,000,000 in 1914 to be the equivalent of Interesting woman of her day” (Star Gazette, Elmira, NY,, page 3). Introduces Solomon in all his glory and Balkis, Queen of Sheba, the most This mammoth spectacle which faithfully and accurately portrays the pomp andĬeremony, life and wisdom of a period a thousand years before Christ, and The Ringling Brothers’ have expended $1,000,000 in the production of Musicians, 400 trained singers and a chorus of 1,000 voices accompanied by a Music for this spectacle has been written by Faltis Effendi, formerlyīandmaster of Khedive of Egypt, and is rendered by an orchestra of 90 More than 1,250 characters and a ballet of 300 dancing girls under the personalĭirection of Ottokar Bartik, ballet master of the Metropolitan Opera House, New Spectacle, ‘Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.’ The spectacle includes a cast of Section is used to transport the scenery and costumes used in the massive Moses designed the scenery for the Ringling Brothers grand spectacle, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba” in 1914. Surrounded with all the gorgeous pageantry and lavish costumes a showman canĭevise” (, page 3). Of Sheba have been made the hero and heroine of the circus spectacle, And now the wise King Solomon and the Queen Has taken her last look at Egypt before the clown’s entry. Pompeii has fallen to ruins in the scattered sawdust of the ring and Cleopatra Reported, “Nero has watched his Rome burn to a cinder beneath a circus tent. Ringling zoo and purchase candy and souvenirs! Hour before show time, allowing spectators to visit the 108 cages in the Two shows were given daily one at 2pm and one at 8PM, and the doors opened an Specially constructed stage, which occupies nearly one entire side of the mainĪnd seats 14,000 people at a performance” (, page 3). The Star Gazette reported, “The spectacle is presented on an enormous, Jerusalem, at the time of the historical visit of Balkis, Queen of Sheba” (Star Solomon ruled the Kingdom of Israel, the action of the spectacle is laid in “all the lavish splendor and opulence that marked the period when the wise Sheba” was presented in a series of dramatic pantomimic pictures staged with It providesĪn additional layer of context for the painted tradition preserved in Scottish Everyone was pleased and that is saying aĬircus spectacle, or spec, in the past, but it is worth repeating. Later inġ914, Moses wrote, “Ringlings’ work came out very good. Got $2,900.00.” Moses was referring to the 1914 Ringling production “SolomonĪnd the Queen of Sheba” that toured throughout the United States. New spectacle, ‘King Solomon.’ Another big show. 6 th, went to Baraboo, Wisconsin, to see the Ringling’s for the Moses designed the scenery for the Ringling Brothers grand circus spectacle, “King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.” Sosman & Landis delivered the scenery for the production in 1914. Copyright © 2019 by Wendy Waszut-Barrett Thomas G.
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