WIRTH'S CIRCUS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 6

WIRTH'S CIRCUS.

cL- It is now over a year since Wirth Bros.' combined' shows visited New -Zealand. Some of the 6tar turns of the world have been engaged, and figure on the programme, , and they will be submitted when the season opens hero on Monday, ils January 13, for a short season only, near >n the Te Aro railway station. First ■comes ? r Hillary Long, the man with the wonder- ' ful neck, who smokes, juggles, and drinks a - s while balancing on his head on a trapezo 118 bar in mid-air, who jumps .downstairs on his head, and who finally slides on his head down a 65ft. piano-wire. Then there . is the Bastien Family of Acrobats, who ■v givo a whole show themselves, the crowning triumph being tho turn, wherein the father and eldest son do a hcad-to-htad balance on the back of a cantering liorso; It wouldn't bo Wirth's Circus without an 'animal act, and for this season's attraction in that line the artists tiro a group of great shaggy polar boars, who are assisted by a pair of grizzly bears. These J" animals show a sagacity' that is little short of miraculous. A score of ; other m " artists contribute to the -circus part, of lfr " the programme. And . thon follows ' a n0 series of exhibitions by a band of real American cowboys. They have reduced ,-Y the use of tho lapsoo to a fine art, mak- " ing ono ropo do almost anything but talk, } Wirth Bros, havo gone to a great expense in carrying a show of over a score oi ,ii bucking ■ horses, which are ridden by the cowboys and by a company of Australian .-a stockmen, thus allowing an interesting L comparison of tho methods in vogue in c i tho two countries. The menagerie, which forms the fourth of the combined shows is a wonderful attraction in itself. The large wo is open from •! 105 p.m. Tllcrc mi will bo mntinoos on Wednesday and Sat' r<jt urday, Tho box plan ,is now open at Uho Drasdan.