Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1979 Page: 4 of 18
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Dallas Memorial Auditorium
Circus travels to Dallas this week
Finding talent for
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
isn't as easy as looking in
the yellow pages," says
Kenneth Feld, the
enthsiastic 29-year-old
coproducer of The
Greatest Show on Earth.
The Circus is coming
to Dallas for 19
performances, July 3-11,
at Dallas Memorial
Auditorium. During
those performances
many thousands of
Circus goers will see the
latest of Feld's
discoveries along with
many established
favorites.
Each year, Feld
travels more than a
quarter-million miles,
visiting two dozen foreign
countries. He's in search
of the finest and most
original performers to
create the varied and
exciting program that
audiences have come to
expect from the
108-year-old entertain-
ment entity.
His pursuit of
untapped circus
resources has endowed
Kenneth Feld with an
unusual and cany store
of knowledge: he knows,
for instance, the exact
location of the speed trap
in the drive across the
Balkan mountains from
Sophia, Bulgaria, to
Vienna, Austria, and just
where the Yugoslavian
police will be waiting.
If he's pressed and
needs to find the height
of an elephant to make
arrangements for a
suitable vehicle for
transportation, Feld
simply takes out a
portable metal tape
measure, marks the
distance around the
animal's foot and
doubles it to give him the
pachyderm's height at
the shoulder.
His father, producer
Irvin Feld, was with him
when he visited a small
circus in Holland, the
type that packs up and
moves every day. The
circus owner was a
mechanical genius who
had built all kinds of
sophisticated equip-
ment, including a
hydraulic tent that was
raised and lowered on
long poles mounted on
two trucks.
"My dad asked for a
demonstration. We were
sitting inside the tent
with the owner. He said
he had merely to press a
button. When he pressed
a button, the tent
collapsed on our heads.
We crawled out on our
hands and knees," says
the younger Feld.
Somethimes there is a
perilous aspect to the
circus. "Recently I was
watching a circus in
Bulgaria when there was
an earthquake nearby.
The ground began to
tremble, the musicians
ran out. A pigeon act was
on at the time, and the
birds were in mid-air as
the trainer ran out
following the band. They
hovered and then settled
on the ring curb as the
crowd made a stampede
for the door.
"I decided to sit it out
with the pigeons rather
than get trampeled by
the crowd. The tremors
subsided. The . circus
continued. The show
always goes on."
When he isn't airborne
or on foreign shores,
Kenneth Feld occupies
himself with the complex
everyday business of the
smooth running of the
two giant circus touring
units. He sees more than
300 of the 1,000 per-
formances given yearly
by the combined shows
and makes certain the
acts remain sharply
honed, the tempo
fast-paced and strict
artistic standards
maintained. He
supervises the
procedure of
transforming hundreds
of exotic special effects
and props, and miles of
rigging into a new
edition of the oldest
entertainment attrac-
tion in America.
A graduate of Boston
University where he
majored in finance, Feld
served an old-fasioned
circus apprenticeship.
His first assignment was
in 1971, editing the
program book that today
is a collector's item in
the circus world.
"The circus is part of
my heartbeat," Feld
said. "My father and I
are the lucky caretakers
of a wonderful treasure
that is the Ringling Bros,
and Barnum & Bailey
Circus."
SUMMER II
REGISTRATION
JULY 9
Late Registration
July 11 i
Cedar Valley College
746-4810
Library presents free movie
The Cedar Hill Public
Library will be
presenting two free
movies today at 10:30
a.m. in the council
chambers. The first
feature is an 8-minute
color animated adapta-
tion of the popular
children's book "Where
the Wild Things Are" by
Maurice Sendak. It is the
tale of a small boy who
makes a visit to the land
of the wild things, tames
the creatures, then
returns home. The
second film is titled
"Koala." This 18-minute
fact-film is a fascinating
study of the cuddly-
looking marsupial
native to Australia. It
includes discussion of
the koala's physical
characteristics, be-
havior, the mating act,
and the birth of a 3-inch
long baby koala and its
instinctive climb into the
mother's pouch. There
will be riddles break
between the two movies.
If you come by the
library to see the names
of our reading club
participants, don't
forget to check out the
back of the yellow
posterboard. We had to
go to the back of it
because so many young-
sters have signed up. As
of June 28 there were 238
kids registered "In
Search of Texas
Treasures." If you are
interested in joining,
come see us and we will
be happy to sign you up.
Last day of registration
is July 14. The deadline
for those 15 books read is
July 21, with the gala
awards cermony on July
23.
Next week's summer-
fun event will be a very
Book Talk
By Carla Bryan,
Cedar Hill librarian
Sphinx by Robin Cook
Six months on the New
York Times bestseller
list. 4,300,000 sold in
hardcover and
paperback. Coma made
all America conscious of
Robin Cook. Now this
master of suspense has
written a spectacular
new thriller set among
the fabled Egyptian
pyramids and in the
Valley of the Kings.
The treasures of
Tutankhamen have
enthralled the world for
half a century. In Robin
Cook's Sphinx, even this
fabulous hoard pales to
insignificance when a
young Havard Egyptolo-
gist stubles across a
dazzling new find, the
unpiunderd tomb of a
pharaoh who ruled after
Tut.
Mesmerized by a
centuries-old statue in a
Cairo antique shop.
Erica Baron believes she
has found the key to the
untapped treasure. But
how is she to decipher
the ribble of the ancient
relic without making its
value known, and hence
felling prey to those who
traffic in the treasures of
antiquity?
She must use the
expertise of those who
stand to make the most
from plundering the
past: Yvon Julien de
Margeau, urbane and
aristocratic, he is
dedicated to wiping out
hi black market or so
he says; Ahmed
Khazzan, the director of
the Egyptian National
Antiquities Service who
is in a position to impede
the illegal commerce or
control it; Yanni
Markoulis, a trafficker
in stolen property and,
even to Erica, an obvious
thug who she must use
and before he uses her;
and Richard Harvey,
Erica's finance, who
desire to dominate her
thwarts her at every
turn and nearly costs
them their lives.
Caught in a web of
intrigue, corruption, and
murder that soon
envelopes her, Erica
races to unlock the
mysterious Curse of the
Pharaohs that has kept
the tomb intact over the
centuries. Only a trick of
translation and the
sudden illumination
which it brings her saves
Erica in the midst of as
terrifying a denouement
as was ever crafted in a
contemporary thriller.
As ingeniously plotted
and compellingly read-
able as Coma, Sphinx
brings vividly to life the
splendid setting in
Egypt's Valley of the
Kings and sets off a fas-
cinating, spine-chilling
interplay between an
ancient world of vast
wealth and a modern
world that both robs and
reveres it.
special storytime
starring Wilma Cren-
shaw, the city's book-
keeper. She will be
reading 3 great books, so
be sure to come to this
exclusive event. You can
pick up your library
program ticket anytime
before the storytime.
Julie Suvannah
Florence of Cedar Hill
donated a book to us in
memory of Karl Suia,
titled Dallas Redis-
covered 1870-1925 by
William L. McDonald. It
is a dynamite picture
book of early Dallas,
with an informative
script by A. C. Greene.
This book will appeal to
all Dallas County
residents.
Ladies of Cedar Hill,
the library is still in need
of stockings or nylons to
stuff our storytime
snake, "Rocky Balboa
Constrictor." Drop them
off in the library or slip
them into the orange
bookdrop located near
the water billing
window. He has a long
way to go before he is
presentable, so we will
appreciate whatever you
can give us.
Library Hours
Monday. 8a.m.-9p.m.
Tuesday 8a.m.-6p.m.
Wednesday 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday 8am.-9p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m.-12noon
The Cedar Hill Public Library is closed on
Friday and Sunday.
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Fashy, Kathy. Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1979, newspaper, July 5, 1979; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth403311/m1/4/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.