The Salt Lake Herald

SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIG SHOW.

Robinson's grand menagerie and triple circus are creating such a furore throughout the country that a description of them is a matter of public interest. We quote the following from a long article in the Ogden Pilot, where the big show exhibited on Saturday last:

"Old John Robinson has got together one of the best collections of animals, birds, beasts and reptiles that has ever traveled, and which exhibited in Ogden on Saturday last. In our Saturday's issue we gave a description of the cages and their contents, and after seeing the performance in the double ring in the evening, we can only say that if there was any fault it was that of having too much of a good thing more than the average man could look at and appreciate at once. In the first place, the attendants and stock, and, in fact, everything looks neat, and when the band, which is a good one, strikes up and the grand procession passes around, one is astonished at the number of persons and things that go to make it up. Then comes the grand opening act, directed by Robert Stickney, and following that a succession of performers, each one an artist, present a number of acts that would take a whole paper to specialize, while it would be extremely difficult to discriminate when all are so excellent.

We may make mention, however, of the beautiful riding of Robert Stickney and the daring confidence of his little son, the graceful activity of George Holland in his bareback act, Minnie Marks and John Barry in their equestrian performance, Christine Stickney in her dashing four-horse bareback riding, and Emma Lake in her most beautiful exposition of the haute ecole equestrianism.

Then there are Billy Ash with his horns, Milly de Granville, the woman with the iron jaw, and John Lowlow, the man with the brazen cheek (the last is alone worth the price of admission), and to conclude, there is Old Dan Rice, Nestor of the arena. As to the numberless tumblers, equilibrists and other actors of all kinds, it would be impossible to particularize. One of the features of the show is the troupe of performing dogs, which are well worth seeing. Taken as a whole the show is most emphatically "a big thing," and every one should see it. It is run by a set of gentlemen, and any one having dealings with them will find out that fact very quickly. Mr. Lowlow, who acted as paymaster here, is a gentleman of business out of the ring, and the funniest clown in America in it. If one cannot laugh at him, there is a total lack of appreciation somewhere. Our advice is, go by all means and take in Old John Robinson's big show."