MANY NEW ACTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23354, 20 November 1937, Page 18

MANY NEW ACTS

WIRTH BROS/ CIRCUS The advance manager (Mr R. C. Mannington) is at present in Dunedin making arrangements for the forthcoming visit of Wirth Bros.’ Circus. Mr Mannington says that the circus is bigger than ever, and, in addition, there is a super menagerie of wild animals. Since last visiting New Zealand, Wirth’s overseas agents have been scouring the four corners of the globe for new acts and novelties, and with the inclusion recently of eight new imported European acts, the company will presept almost an entirely new circus. “ In addition to the many new overseas acts,” said Mr Mannington, “this year the New Zealand public will see a circus that surpasses even the mightiest efforts of Wirth’s own unequalled past, having only last year purchased Ivan Bros.’ famous American circus (the elaborate £25,000 company brought out to Australia by Major Condor), which is now incorporated with Wirth’s. The entire circus is an action-packed entertainment from start to finish.” Representatives of 11 different nations appear in the ring, and chief among the acts listed on the programme. which runs for nearly three Hours, are the Four Kobes, novelty entertainers with foot juggling, hand balancing. and tumbling, the climax of this thrilling act being the slide of death backwards down a wire from a height of 90 feet; the Ten Ziganies, phenomenal senors and senoritas, intrducing revelations in whirlwind displays of Spanish acrobatics; the Three Houstons. in marvellous feats of balancing in mid-air on the top of high poles; tiie Four Dare-devil Onotos, aerial motor cyclists who make backward and forward somersaults high in mid-air. with the cycle travelling at a terrific speed; Mons. Henri Martel, from the Opera House, Paris, with his performing dogs; Fresco and Camillo, comedy acrobats: and the Great Markoni, the world’s champion leaper,

who clears an automobile and 10 men from a standing jump. Coming with the circus is Wirth’s Zoo and Super Menagerie, claimed to be really a world’s wonderland for children. Included are a herd of nine elephants. 18 cages of lions, tigers, jaguars, baboons, monkeys, orangoutangs, panthers, bears, and a complete stud of beautiful and marvel-lously-trained horses, not forgetting “Harold," the amazing orang-outang, in comic antics always a favourite with the children. The menagerie will be open each day from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., when a lecture will be given on the animals. The location will be the Caledonian Ground, and the box plan will be opened at Begg’s music shop on Monday next at 10 a.m. It is announced that, following tht death of the late Mr Philip Wirth, sen., at Sydney in August last, Mr George Wirth, sen., who has been living semi-retirement for the past eight years, one of the foundation memberf of the firm, has rejoined the director* ate.