WIRTH BROTHERS' BIG DEAL.
Mr. Philip Wirth, sen., has announced that he has purchased the entire outfit of Ivan Bros.' International Circus. It will be recalled that Ivan Bros, was the very ambitious £20,000 circus formed and managed by Major Condor on his retirement from the Australian Broadcasting Commission. After a varied career, during which the vicissitudes of handling a big circus on tour were experienced, Ivan Bros, eventually went into the receiver's hands, from whom Mr. Philip Wirth, sen., purchased the entire outfit. Whilst admitting that the purchase price ran into some thousands of pounds, Mr. Wirth does not disclose the exact price. Ivan Bros.' International Circus has now been merged into Wirth Bros.' "Greatest Show on Earth," and the entire combined show now on tour is to.be known as "Wirths' Mighty Circus." The big show is now touring Western Australia under the sole direction of Mr. Philip Wirth, sen., and is about to commence playing the towns en route back to Melbourne to open the usual annual season there, commencing on Caulfield Cup night. Mr. R. C. Mannington, whom it will be recalled advanced Wirth Bros., Ltd., on their last New Zealand tour, advises that on the occasion of Wirths' next visit to this country the New Zealand public will witness "a grander Wirths than they have ever known."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 21
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221WIRTH BROTHERS' BIG DEAL. Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 21
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