IT is a far cry from the days when ancient picnic races and ploughing matches attracted the inevitable caravans of gipsy fortune tellers and illusionists. Sideshows were ever a lure to carnival merrymakers, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 299 wordsCROWDS of people who visit the "Show this year will yet a cold stare from at least one lady exhibitor. This will be from the girl ...
Article : 96 wordsDAREDEVIL riders. Miss Pat Gamble, of Chicago, and Miss May Wong, of Shanghai, will race high-powered motor cycles on a perpendicular wall ...
Article : 64 wordsAnother of Mr. Meekin's extrsordinary shows this year is 'The Great Phantasm" from the New York World Fair. This reveals a headless figure ...
Article : 49 wordsWITH a collection of more than 200 reptiles. Venetia. the Australianborn woman .snake charmer, will make her appearance at the Show this ...
Article : 94 wordsYOU may mule at the quaint awards given by our picturesque pioncers in the carliest of shows, when a shepherd ...
Article : 115 wordsTHERE are tails to tales and tails to test teams, but the strangest tail yet seen is the tail grown by the wonder by from Borneo, Jang. ...
Article : 153 wordsTHE many thousands of persons who have seen the electrical waxworks have been amazed at the wonderful likeness of the 45 lifelike figures ...
Article : 87 wordsSHADES of Thunderbolt and Ben Hall; visions of a gold coach on a winding road, and a bushranger's ...
Article : 325 wordsONE of the interesting and new personalities with the Greenhalgh and Jackson shows this year is Miss Mal Kingsley. the lady glassblower. ...
Article : 75 wordsWHAT the initials J.C.W. are to the theatrical business, so are the initials G. and J to the sideshow business, for those initials stand for ...
Article : 177 wordsTWO daredevil motorists inside a steel cage. one riding a motor bike at a mile a minute and the other driving a midget car directly across the ...
Article : 134 wordsWOODCHOPPING and sawing contests have grown into one of the most popular sections of the ...
Article : 151 wordsTHE man who can train a fiea to do acrobatic stunts is a long stride ahead of the chap who gets to work on s performing animal. It seems ...
Article : 93 wordsAN outstanding attraction at this years Show is the giant and giantess from New Zealand. They have hist arrived, and will be on ...
Article : 149 wordsA MAGNIFICENT St. Bernard dog named Jumbo will delight the hearts of patrons to the sideshow area of the exhibition. The dog was ...
Article : 51 wordsMIDGETS have made themselves, famous throughout history, as there' have been midget statesmen, priests, high counsellors of the Church ...
Article : 102 wordsAnother Greenhalgh and Jackson sideshow at the Royal Sydney Show this year includes "Electra." a girl who defies death in an electric chair. She ...
Article : 85 wordsGOT up in elaborate style, with quaint electrical attractions. Snake Gully is bound to prove one of the star attractions in the sideshow section of ...
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Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), Sun 17 Mar 1940, Page 36
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