Not even in the brave old days when Jumbo was a household word, thanks to P. T. Barnum's ballyhooing, did The Greatest Show on Earth gather unto itself the publicity that the romance between Gargantua the Great and M'Toto, girl gorilla of the Belgian Congo and Havana, Cuba, heaped upon it.

From the moment the engagement was announced, the world became intensely interested in this gorilla couple.  The fiancée's trip to Port Everglades, Florida, by railroad ferry, her reactions to confinement in her $20,000 air conditioned cage, a duplicate of Gargantua's famous rolling cell-block, and finally, the placing of the two cages end to end at the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Sarasota winter quarters for the bride and groom's first look at one another - all the news of these incidents the world eagerly awaited.

Now Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great are on tour, receiving the public in the futuristic, poleless tent that Norman Bel Geddes designed for them.  They are, of course, the greatest feature that the amusement world has ever known.

When will they mate? Who can tell - maybe tomorrow, maybe next week.  Anyway, Gargantua is crazy about M'Toto.

That's as it should be.