'Circus 1903' promises the return of elephant-size wonder
Even in this, its final season crisscrossing America, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a very big show. But it's still a fraction of the size it was in, say, 1903. That year, the Ringling Bros. played the Coliseum on Wabash Avenue. I took a look the other day at the personnel list...