QUAINT CIRCUS BANQUET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 28 March 1936, Page 9

QUAINT CIRCUS BANQUET

i After the conclusion of a recent performance of the Bertram Mills Circus, the greatest show of its kind in London, the arena was rapidly transformed into a vast banqueting hall The favoured guests, the "Daily Mail” says, were members of the Circus Fans’ Association. They passed from the Pillar Hall through lines of real circus horses, brave in their carnival trappings, into a fairyland, where men ■ and women sat and feasted with clowns and with queens of the sawdust rin<r. It was the Topsy Turvy Banquet-Well-known social, theatrical and sporting celebrities sat with whitefaced clowns and world-famous animal trainers. Among the most enthusiastic of the “fans” were Sir Cedric and Lady Hardwieke, Sir Noel and Lady CurtisBennett, while the chairman was M l ' M. Wilson Disher, the “Daily Mail” drama critic. The toast of “The Animals,” proposed by Professor Sir Frederick Hobday, the famous veterinary surgeon, was responded to by six elephants. ¥ ¥ ¥ ♦ Buster Crabbe, one of the screen’s several Tarzans, is said to be going to London to make a North-West Mounted Police picture, of all things! Jeanette Sings Again