Mroczkowski puts the Liberty
Horses through their paces
With a description by F. H. Grisewood from Bertram Mills 's Winter
Quarters at Ascot
See the drawings and note by Steven Spurrier on page 10
Few things interest us more, from childhood on, than a circus ; and this broadcast, that is a kind of trailer to the one to be given vof the circus in action, from Olympia on January 5, is planned to show listeners something of the ceaseless activity that goes on while the circus is in winter quarters.
It will concentrate on the liberty horses, so called because they are not ridden. They enter the ring unshod, and are entirely free agents in performing different and wonderful formations. During training (a glimpse of which is to be shown to listeners) these highly-strung animals have to be accustomed to every kind of noise and interruption.
At Ascot, near the race-course station, Bertram ' Mills's Circus spends the winter months. There is a staff of eighty ; there are fifty horses (forty-five of them in the liberty teams), twenty ponies, six elephants, and seven lions. It is an amazing self-supporting industry. The circus has its own farriers, its own vet., its own carpenter's shop, makes its own dresses, and even its own electric light, being dependent on nothing but the water supply.