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An Oriental Feature
Elephant, Horse, Pony and
People in a Thrilling Act

A striking feature of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Pawnee
Bill Far East is the elephant,
horse and pony act of
Maximilian Gruber and Miss
Adelina. Performing horses
and performing elephants
there are in plenty, but it
seldom is that they are combined,
and never in all hisotry
has there been an act similar
to the one presented in the
Wild West-Far East this season.
The horse is a thoroughbred
and comes from
Australia; the elephant from

MAXIMILIAN GRUBER'S MARVELOUS PERFORMING ANIMALS

India, and was once ridden by the present King of
England; and the pony is a Shetland, thirty-two
inches high.
The elephant walks over the horse; stepping
between its prostrate legs it dances, cakewalks, plays
musical instruments, tosses its master high in the
air, permits Miss Adelina to put her head in its gaping
mouth, will bring its foot down to a god watch
lying on the floor so close that a piece of
paper cannot be slipped between, and
finally grasps the Shetland around
the waist with its trunk raising him
high in the air and carries it around the
arena.
To the onlooker it would seem that the
pony, a diminutive little thing, is in imminent
peril, but the two are fast friends-in
fact the elephant takes as much care of the baby
horse as if it were the mother. When Mr. Gruber
was playing an engagement in London last year
he had a chance to buy the pony. One afternoon it
got loose in the stable and wandered to the elephant's
stall-as a rule the jungle monsters do not like
strange horses, but the two became friends from
the first.
Miss Adelina, who assists Mr. Gruber in the performance,
is the young lady who won the International
Beauty metal last June in Paris.
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An Oriental Feature
Elephant, Horse, Pony and
People in a Thrilling Act

A striking feature of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Pawnee
Bill Far East is the elephant,
horse and pony act of
Maximilian Gruber and Miss
Adelina. Performing horses
and performing elephants
there are in plenty, but it
seldom is that they are combined,
and never in all hisotry
has there been an act similar
to the one presented in the
Wild West-Far East this season.
The horse is a thoroughbred
and comes from
Australia; the elephant from

MAXIMILIAN GRUBER'S MARVELOUS PERFORMING ANIMALS

India, and was once ridden by the present King of
England; and the pony is a Shetland, thirty-two
inches high.
The elephant walks over the horse; stepping
between its prostrate legs it dances, cakewalks, plays
musical instruments, tosses its master high in the
air, permits Miss Adelina to put her head in its gaping
mouth, will bring its foot down to a god watch
lying on the floor so close that a piece of
paper cannot be slipped between, and
finally grasps the Shetland around
the waist with its trunk raising him
high in the air and carries it around the
arena.
To the onlooker it would seem that the
pony, a diminutive little thing, is in imminent
peril, but the two are fast friends-in
fact the elephant takes as much care of the baby
horse as if it were the mother. When Mr. Gruber
was playing an engagement in London last year
he had a chance to buy the pony. One afternoon it
got loose in the stable and wandered to the elephant's
stall-as a rule the jungle monsters do not like
strange horses, but the two became friends from
the first.
Miss Adelina, who assists Mr. Gruber in the performance,
is the young lady who won the International
Beauty metal last June in Paris.
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