Curtains for Ringling
Re “Ringling’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ to end,” Jan. 15
How appropriate that with the closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, we have a new circus just now starting up.
The new Trump administration, even before taking office, has already provided some thrills and spills, and no doubt when the lights actually come up next week, the entertainment will really go into full swing, like the death-defying acrobats under the big top.
Only the new circus, rather than being led by a talented, articulate ringmaster, will have as its leader a demagogic, misogynistic, incurious, thoughtless, delusional, talent-less, scary clown, which is so sad!
Maybe we can get our money back, and the new circus will go bankrupt and close early. Fred Barker Burbank Hallelujah, it’s a good day in America when a show that abuses animals announces the end of the show forever. I think Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus could have evolved and phased out the animals a long time ago, moving forward with human entertainers like Cirque du Soleil. Patty Jackson Downey
As a boy growing up in Connecticut in the 1950s, the coming of the circus was one of the highlights of the year. The magic of the three-ring circus — with the lion tamer, the parade of elephants, the trapeze artists and the clown cars — is among the most wonderful memories of my childhood. Yes, I agree that the lives of the animals were abysmal, but we didn’t know that then. Today, I mourn the death of a large part of Americana. Bob Lentz Sylmar
Was your story on the circus closing entirely accurate? Surely, it is just moving to a different location at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Christian Stevens Los Angeles