Christy's Wild Animal Show Promises Elephant or Pony Rides to Children, Sept. 21, 1923

Will Let the Kiddies Ride the Elephants. . . That’s the Treat Promised by Christy’s Wild Animal Shows, Here September 21

Small boys are happy.

Everywhere the gaudy posters of the clowns, the pink clad girls on the white horses, the spangled flying figures and jungle tribes meet the eye. City highways and byways are splotched with color, for the show—Christy Brothers’ Monster Four-Ring Wild Animal Exposition—is coming to town; will exhibit at Elizabeth City Friday, September 21.

The smell of the sawdust is in the air and young America is on the qui vive.

This is the only circus to exhibit in Elizabeth City this year. Christy Bros. have never shown in this section before, but it’s “some” show if we believe the press agent who tells us that “never before was such a combination of whirlwind spectacle of flashing colors and daring feats of agility and strength unrolled before the enthralled spectators. Enlarged to five times its former size, traveling in their own special train of double length cars, and presenting in four rings trained wild animals acts in new displays, with elephants, camels, zebras, leopards, pumas, bears, monkeys, pigs, goats, dogs and ponies, performing in mixed groups, will show they have something new in wild beast exhibition.”

Every child visiting the afternoon performance will be given a free pony or elephant ride; special attendants to care for the kiddies.

From the first page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 1923