Tappahannock High School - Annual Yearbook (Tappahannock, VA)

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' ' THE GREATEST SHOW ON E ARTH As Bamum-Gaily erected its big-top we all anticipated a great show from this renowned circus troupe. For ten years now, I, as Mayor of Ultraville, had been trying to schedule a perfor- mance by this outfit, and now at last my efforts are to be reward- ed. Tonight the show will go on I Won ' t you join us under the world’s largest tent as the curtain rises on a cast largely trained at Tappahannock ' s Winter Garden for the past 12 years? On with the show ! Ladies and gentlemen, cried Ringmaster, James Haile. I call your attention to ring one where you will see an amazing act of courage and fortitude when, for the first time ever, trainer Donald Croxton will allow a mouse to place its head within his gaping mouth. In the center ring you will see ' The flying Warriors ' who have achieved world wide fame with their aerial artistry. Lottie Elboume, Kitty Smith, Jean Eliott, Duane Burton, Henry Verlander, and Jimmy Hutchinson will perform some of the most daring and hazardous tricks the trapeze world has ever seen. And in ring three, where Yo-Yo Carlton, highest paid clown in U. S. history, is performing, you will see some of the top trick riders in the U, S. This group, known as the ' High Flyers ' is composed of Thelma Williams, Charlotte Johnson, Vincent Davis, and James Mitchell. While the next acts are performing folks, continued the Ringmaster, let me tell you about the special side events you m.ay find on the midway after the main performance. Unbelievable sights and sounds will thrill you in the freak show; it has been called the ' biggest freak in the world! Headlining this chilling spectacle is ' Irvin the Icy’, billed as the living corpse, and who withstands a 10, 000 volt shock without twitching his nose. In an adjoining stall one may see the only African Zulee in captivity. This amazing tribesman, David McCloskey, will startle you with his native dances. Mauling Mae Lynne Brooks awaits you next. Billed as the world’s strongest woman her act is climaxed when she swings a two-ton elephant around her head by its snout. Bruce Parker, the only man alive to hang by his hair from the Eiffel Tower for 12 hours, will perform some of his daring lifting tests with his foot-long ' tresses. You will hear more about the side events, folks, after I direct your attention to the performers now taking their places in the three rings under the big top. Foremost among the world ' s tight-rope walkers are the team of Nina Gawen and Billy Ware. Nina is the first woman to master the tightrope wearing sling pumps. In the next ring, famous woman animal trainer, Sandra Parker, whose only weapons are a wet noodle and a piece of bubble gum, will surround herself with woman-eating saber-toothed tigers. Her assistant is I Mary Crowe, who prods the animals with a tooth pick to infuriate them. Racing around these cages you will I see Janice Vauter, top bareback rider, being pursued by Bob Balderson on a wild boar. Also on the midway you may witness the greatest collection of snakes ever assembled. Bette Cole I and Patricia Lowery, famed wild game huntresses, will be handling the large anaconda and boa constrictors. I They allow themselves to be tied into knots by these fearless women. The show will be climaxed, folks, when Clarence Elbourn, dare-devil, will leap 500 feet into a vat ! of steaming fudge, made and held by Peggy Davis and Alice Robinson. Peggy and Alice also perform as I Barkers on the midway. Don’t forg et to take in these various shows, folks, as you leave the big-top, concluded the Ringmaster. Yes, citizens of Ultraville, now you have surely witnessed THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. 1 3 John B. Wilkerson, Mayor

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Having fun? 2. Hungry looking bunch, 3. Ain ' t love grand? 4. Dancing? 5. Hey, where ya ' going? I ' m bored 1 7. Perched in the sun. 8. Monkey on the fence I 9. Gay ole ' party. lo. Smoke eater.