When the Barker Barks

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 5 October 1928, Page 4

When the Barker Barks

FINIIIS is how the big broudeast station KGO, Oakland, California, announces on its programme a visit to a big circus (a "barker" is a man who ealls out in front of the entrance to entice the public in) :-The barker will do his stuff before the KGO microphones on Tuesday night, September 25, when the Pilgrims will visit the circus, telling listeners what they see through word and music pictures. Besides spieling about the snake charmer and the other usual array of side show freaks, with the aid of the Pilgrim musicians the barker will tell of the donkey and the clown, the big brown hear, the trained seals, and other events taking place in the big three rings. A recitation by the barker entitled "IIlow the Elephant Got His Trunk" is one of the many scheduled novelties.