WIRTH'S CIRCUS.
Wirth's Circus opens its season here on Monday next at Lancaster Park. At tho head of a big company is Hiiiary Long, tho man with the wonderful neck, who smokes, juggles ami driuks while balancing on His head on a trapeze bar in mid air, who jump*; downstairs on his head, and who finally slides on his head down a 651t piano wire. Then there is tho Bastion Family of acrobats who givo a whole show themselves, the crowning triumph being tho turn whorciu tho father and eldest son do a head-to-hoad balance on the back of a cantering hors<?. A series of exhibitions will bo .given by a band of American cowboys, led by Art. Boden. There are n _ mini her of bucking horses, which aro ridden by the cowboys and by a company of* Australian stockmen. The lai-j-e Zoo ' will be open daily from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The box plan is at tho Dresden.
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Press, Volume XIIX, Issue 14553, 2 January 1913, Page 4
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