Flea Circus Invades Times Square

Wed Oct 9,12:07 PM ET

By CAMERON BLOCH, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Saturday was turning out to be a hard day for Professor Adam Gertsacov.

Half of his cast was on strike, the other half went missing and he had yet to discover that the cannon ? which hurtles his charges through a flaming "ring of death" ? was destined to malfunction.

But Gertsacov, who calls himself a "psycho entomologist," was determined that the show would go on, especially since it was the debut of his Acme Miniature Circus at the Palace of Variety, a newcomer to 42nd Street near Times Square.

Midge and Madge, two sisters of the species "pulex irritans" ? fleas Gertsacov purchased from an entomological supply house ? would need to put on the show of their young lives to satisfy the New York audience.

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