SIDE-SHOW ATTRACTIONS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13179, 11 February 1936, Page 5

SIDE-SHOW ATTRACTIONS.

ST. AIORITZ SKATERS. The performance of those two clever artists can certainly be regarded as something extraordinary. Professor Corthesy, the principal in the* act, has a great reputation as a skater, he hating started at the age of four, and during his career he has managed sofne of the world’s best known skating links, also acting as skating instructor to King Boris of Bulgaria and King Alexander of Serbia. He has also given exhibitions before the late Czar ot Russia and the ex-Kaiser of Germany. Hi* partner is indeed a very graceful skater, and the combination performs with perfect abandonment some really thrilling feats, which characterises the. performance as high-class. The raised platform upon which the performance takes place is only 12ft. by 12ft., and the amazing rate at which they swing round convinces the onlooker that a mishap would mean a. serious accident to the performers. The Maryborough Chronicle says: “The skaters gave an exhibition ot strength and speed, an act of grace and beauty, in which the lady partner. Aliss Vera Paravineini, excelled. Lithe of limb, flexible of body, she executed figures of intricacy that were wonderful. “The St. Moritz -Skaters are on the Carnival grounds, and every night of the carnival, present the same act ns played before His late Majesty King George the V., and Queen Alary, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales only last- November at the London H ippodrome.”