The story opens with the circus giving a performance at a small western city. In the audience is the young mayor, Rene Rembrandt, of the city, come for pleasure and relief from his arduous ... See full summary
Rose of the Circus (1911) Online
The story opens with the circus giving a performance at a small western city. In the audience is the young mayor, Rene Rembrandt, of the city, come for pleasure and relief from his arduous official duties. He is greatly amused at the antics and capers of the clowns and other such preliminaries, and finally the show is in full swing. Event follows event in rapid succession but throughout all the glitter and gaudy array, his eyes have been riveted to a slight girlish form standing daintily a-tip-toe on the bare back of a prancing steed the while he dashes about the enclosed arena. To the vast audience surrounding the ring, the performers have nothing but smiles, but poor little Rose, overcome by the long and fatiguing journey of the night before, and even as she throws a kiss to the assemblage totters, steadies herself and then falls from her horse from utter exhaustion. Rene, the young mayor is the first at her side and anxious for her comfort, he directs that she be carried to her ...
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 | Frances Gibson | - | Rose |
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