The Flying Jordans.

Hastings Standard, Issue 454, 19 October 1897, Page 3

The Flying Jordans.

This first-class company of acrobats appeared under canvas last evening to an overflowing audience. The gymnastic performances of Mario and the Jordans evoked unstinted applause, these artists being simply marvellous. The same remark may be applied to Miss Aragon's tight-wire walking which was altogether out of the ordinary groove of such exhibitions. To all intents and purposes last night's show was a circus in which the übiquitous bike usurped the place of that quadruped, the horse, which seems in a fair way of becoming extinct. Olaf Schrader came as a revelation to the Hastings bike riders and his manipulation of his machine in the most preposterous positions was wondrously clever and clean. A little lady called Thursday, for some reason or other best known to her godparents, gave a very neat rendering of the sailor's hornpipe. A large part of the performance consisted of absurd sketches by various actors on a stage some of which were exceedingly funny but there was rather too much of it. Taken all round the show was exceedingly good and well worthy of the patronage extended. Before the performance M. Lamont's dive from a pole into a net eighty feet below was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators. The Company left this morning fcr Waipawa.