Back of the Scenes at the Sideshow


By King Deckert
If you have ever attended a sideshow— and who hasn't?—you have looked at astonishing exhibitions and seemingly impossible feats and have wondered, "how do they do it?" King Deckert, an old-time trouper, explains in this fascinating article how the public is bunked.
IN DARKEST Africa, the Voodoo witch doctor charges an admission and lets superstitious blacks view his weird collection of miracles; in more progressive countries, intelligent people pay their thin dimes every year to see "The Half Lady," "The Human Mermaid," "Oregon John," and scores of other "strange, strange people," who migrate from state to state during the summer months under the flamboyant banners of the sideshow.