Circus Comes to Town

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 61, 3 December 1937, Page 4

Circus Comes to Town

SOLE BROTHERS' SHOW

The world owes a debt of gratitude to people like the Sole Brothers, who are keeping the eircus so much alive in this age of celluloid entertainment. They will bring to Ilangiora on Friday next a show which maintains all the old traditions of the circus ring and at the same time answers to fulT satisfaction the modern insistence on novelty, daring, and rapid ringing of the changes. They prove conclusively that there is still a very definite place for the circus, presenting a show which is thoroughly satisfying and well worth the money. A highly-trained assemblage of animals and humans will perform for the delight of their audiences. The circus is distinctive for the excellence of the team work and general management, which keep the show going at a fast pace, carrying the interest of the audiences rapidly through a series of exciting and humorous turns. The animals show evidence of patient training, performing willingly and cleverly under the direction of skilled masters. Elephants, tigers, horses, ponies, monkeys, a dog—they are all there, together with clowns, the wirowalkers, trapeze artists, horsemen and horsewomen, the conjurer, the tumblers, and the circus band. The whole show maintains a general level of excellence, allowing hardly a dull moment. Some of the performers achieve amazing versatility, especially some of the girl acrobats and trapeze and wire-walking artists. Some of their feats are breathtaking. The clowns, though some of their dialogue could be more clever, are surprisingly, versatile. The dressing of the show was an outstanding feature. One of the outstanding performers is Miss Topsy Williams, trapeze artist, who also dances on the wire rope, tumbles, and presents an amusing series of tricks with a ‘Pomeranian dog. Under the command of Captain Andrew, the tigers perform faithfully, the crowd taking plenty of thrills from tho snarling and leaping of the beasts about the cage. The trick ponies and equstrian acts are a credit both to the .-horses and

their riders. The liidway family presents a ladder act which is as novel and skilful as the programme proclaims it to be. The wire-walking is one of the most clever and effective of the acts, and the monkey-pony steeplechase provides a good measure of comedy. These are only a few of the acts which go to the making of a thoroughly satisfactory programme, one which should do much to maintain the popularity of tho circus and enhance the reputation of the Sole brothers as purveyors of good entertainment.