BARTON’S CIRCUS
MANY BRIGHT TURNS, The big marquee at the Showgrounds was well filled on Saturday afternoon and evening when Barton’s skilled animal and human performers gave bright entertainments. There are exceptionally well-trained and sagacious ponies, dogs and monkeys which appear in a variety of turns. There is a
most smoothly efficient exponent of legerdemain who in addition can swallow fire, walk on sharp swords and get himself out of a straight-jacket, in 60 Seconds. There is Joey and his one wheel bicycle who provides what is really the cleverest item on the programme and one which would command a place in any vaudeville show. He also contributes largely to the clowning that goes on irrepressibly. A “little lady" does convolutions on a ladder and a gallant ape pilots a real
petrol-driven plane and glides to rest at a signal from its lord and master. There will be a matinee again this afternoon and a final performance this evening.
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Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 9
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159BARTON’S CIRCUS Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 9
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