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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Circus, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Circus Baby: 1926 Washington, D.C. "Alice Longworth & Paulina at circus. May 11, 1926." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. Alice Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a very colorful character. Her father, President Theodore Roosevelt, once said, "I can run the country or I can control Alice. I can't do both." Feisty Alice used to sneak onto the White House roof to smoke and was known to carry a snake in her purse to shock her dates. Ringling, Barnum & Bailey Submitted by PER on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:53pm. According to Washington Post accounts at the time, this would have been the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus which set up at Camp Meigs (now site of the Florida Market in northeast DC). Highlights included 35 elephants, 200 horses and a pageant of "jewel floats" drawn by trained zebras and llamas. May Wirth, star equestrienne, did the Charleston on horseback.