Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus
Its first performance at Madison Square Garden in New York, a benefit performance for the Cancer Committee, ,April 4, 1957. The show – Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey – was sparkling with spangled acrobats, color spotlights, new costumes and colorful displays. Circus people parade in “Coronation of Mother Goose” – a display that included men and women dressed in every shade of color, circling a castle of multi-colored minarets set up in the center ring. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)