SOME CIRCUS!
Each spring in America a huge amusement organization — Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus — leaves its winter quarters at Sarasota, Florida, in the south eastern United States, and tours the nation. During the following eightmonth season, the circus travels nearly 20,C00 miles and gives 425 performanc e s in 130 cities and 36 states. Transported by four railroad trains, the circus is a unique, mobile community. Its inhabitants — workers and performers from all parts of the world — co-operate to make the circus a success. They can dismantle the show and set it up 100 miles away in less than a day. Largest of 20 major U.S. circuses, Ringling Brothers employs 1,500 persons including performers, doctors, cooks, technicians, and laborers. Th.e circus carries its own hospital, post office, barber and ■ ^auty shop, electric pcv/er plants, cooking and ealing facilities, repair shops, police, fire^ legal and advertising departments. Hopsed in 43 tents, the circus covers more than 15 acres when it is unpacked and set up. The main tent or "Big Top,^ where feature performances are presented, measures more than 540 feet in length, and more than 240 feet in width. It can set 16,000 spectators.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 43, 5 November 1952, Page 7
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