Its first performance at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 4, 1957 a benefit performance for the cancer committee. 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 multicolored minarets set up in center ring. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)