WIRTHIS CIRCUS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5349, 4 February 1916, Page 3

WIRTHIS CIRCUS.

The big show of Wirth Bto., Ltd.j is announced' to visit Pahiatua, Tuesday, February Bth, near the Bridge. On the present tour a programme of exceptional merit is being presented. The Royal Wirth family and Captain Hilling’s performing seals are at the head of the bill. The former have just returned home after a tour round the world, lasting five years. With them is Miss May Martin Wirth, whose career as a rider has been triumphant. She is an Australian girl, who received her early training with the Wirth Bros.’ show. When she performed for the first time in America, she created / quite a furore. Night ater night the theatres where sh© performed were packed to the doors and the press acclaimed her as the greatest somersault rider who had ever performed in America. After a starring engagement with the huge Barnum and Bailey Show she went to England and appeared at the premier amusement places and also before their Majesties, King George and Queen Mary at the Olympia. The act in which the family appear is called “A Circus Modern,” and is a delightful number.

Captain Hilling's seals are, without doubt, the most wonderfully trained animals that have ever been presented to an Australian public. They juggle with balls and bars in a marvellous manner, walk the tight rope and ride a pony, juggling the while. They also play tunes on a set of electric bells, and then they all combine in “The Seal Band,’’ which is excruiciatingly funny. Their intelligence is almost human. They make a big hit wherever they appear. The Loretta Twins are two lady bar performers, the only two in the world. Their performance* is graceful and clever, and they accomplish feats that few men can equal. Louvain on the aerial wire has many new things to show, and the Ernestonians and Novikoffs in theeir aerial act are clever beyond the ordinary. Mussa Marnier, the Russian Cossack, gives a graphic exposition of the Cossack , modes of warfare, and does wonderful things while his horse is at the gallop. A group of young Australian bred lions, the first ever bom and trained rn the country, are an item of more than ■ordinary interest. The.se and a number of highly trained horses and elephants are but a few items in a programme , the peer of which has never been presented in the Southern hemisphere before.