CHIARINI’S CIRCUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3116, 13 February 1873, Page 2

CHIARINI’S CIRCUS.

In a few days we shall be by a mammoth circus, the success of which in other lands and along our own coast has been very great indeed. Its proprietor and manager, one Guiseppe Chiarini, has obtained the credit of doing nothing by halves ; and his arrangements are proof that such is the case. If he could have obtained the Octagon for his show, he would have had it, and enclosed it; then he tried to get the •- outhern market reserve, but the City Council would not let him fill up some drains, and he will now pitch his tent—canvas building it should he called—on private property at the junction of Princes street south and the Anderson’s Bay ro id. The announcement of the advance agent that the Diiriedin people will see equestrian feats by men," women, and children — for one of the company (and its second attraction) is a child barely three years old, who does what clever grown-up people are seldom prepared to try—the like of which has never been i-een before in these parts ; and if the critiques of Northern and American papers which lid before us are to be taken as a criterion, it is no exaggerated statement Twenty-five highly trained aru.T??'' B, twenty-five performers form the company. First in the order of merit is Chiarini himself, with bis clever horses, which are sa d to do anything but talk ; then the two Creoles, Theodore and Beleu Cuba, the bare back r ders, whose feats are called unsurpassable ; the Calo Brothers, acrobats, otherwise called the Kings of the i arpet; an Eng ish clown. “ a very accomplished artistthe Recbeda family, who give on the violin imitations of birds, flutes, &c. ; a woman who dances and plays the drum on the tight rope; a male and female trapeze performer, the latter of whom is to be seen suspended horizontally in mid-air, sustained only by a small leather strap between the man’s teeth, while he is himself suspended from an uppe ■ bar by his feet. They then reverse positions, and the woman •‘performs the Herculean feat of sustaining for several seconds her robust companion between her pearly teeth, retaining her place head downward at that giddy height mer -ly by her feet,” This act is said in the bills to illustrate “the prodigious power of a woman’s jaw.” We have sketched a few of the wonders done by this company, the merits of which are forcibly stated by the Lyttelton Times j—“Doubtless, the prices charged for admission have caused many to overcome their inclination to patronise the circus; but if so, it is a mistake, and one which should be corrected without delay. Honestly speaking, that which Signor Ghavini'offers to the public is worth a guinea, where former circus performers would not be worth a shilling, ”