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  2. ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

    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]

    Article : 680 words
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  5. GIRL IN ICE TOMB

    CROWDS 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 words
  6. MOTORDROME RIDERS

    DAREDEVIL riders. Miss Pat Gamble, of Chicago, and Miss May Wong, of Shanghai, will race high-powered motor cycles on a perpendicular wall ...

    Article : 64 words
  7. REMARKABLE PHANTASM

    Another 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 words
  8. WOMAN SNAKE CHARMER

    WITH a collection of more than 200 reptiles. Venetia. the Australianborn woman .snake charmer, will make her appearance at the Show this ...

    Article : 94 words
  9. SOME BIRD, THIS

    YOU may mule at the quaint awards given by our picturesque pioncers in the carliest of shows, when a shepherd ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. A TAIL TO TELL

    THERE 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 words
  11. ELECTRICAL WAXWORKS

    THE many thousands of persons who have seen the electrical waxworks have been amazed at the wonderful likeness of the 45 lifelike figures ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. MEMORIES OF OUTLAWS IN CRIME DISPLAY

    SHADES of Thunderbolt and Ben Hall; visions of a gold coach on a winding road, and a bushranger's ...

    Article : 325 words
  13. GLASS BLOWER

    ONE of the interesting and new personalities with the Greenhalgh and Jackson shows this year is Miss Mal Kingsley. the lady glassblower. ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. G. AND J. SIDESHOWS

    WHAT 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 words
  15. THE DURKIN THRILLERS

    TWO 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 words
  16. Thrills When Chips Fly

    WOODCHOPPING and sawing contests have grown into one of the most popular sections of the ...

    Article : 151 words
  17. FLEA CIRCUS

    THE 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 words
  18. MEET THE GIANTS

    AN outstanding attraction at this years Show is the giant and giantess from New Zealand. They have hist arrived, and will be on ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. GREAT ST. BERNARD

    A MAGNIFICENT St. Bernard dog named Jumbo will delight the hearts of patrons to the sideshow area of the exhibition. The dog was ...

    Article : 51 words
  20. HISTORICAL MIDGETS

    MIDGETS have made themselves, famous throughout history, as there' have been midget statesmen, priests, high counsellors of the Church ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. ELECTRIC CHAIR DEFIED,

    Another 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 words
  22. SNAKE GULLY

    GOT up in elaborate style, with quaint electrical attractions. Snake Gully is bound to prove one of the star attractions in the sideshow section of ...

    Article : 57 words
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