SOLE BROS.' CIRCUS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 13

SOLE BROS.' CIRCUS

/isit to Hastings Soon A ciircus still has the power to produce excitement. There is always the possibility that the timing of the trapeze artists as they swing and tumble overhead may one day be a fraotion imperfeot. Then there is the possible spice of danger in the snarling lions as they jump through burning hoops or glare menacingly upon their keepers. Sole Bros,' circus and zoo, which is arriving in Hastings for a two nights' season, comes with an international reputatlon. The circus comprises a company of ■ 30 artists in their' own particular line, headed by Captain Andrew with his lions, lionesses and tigers, performing together in a huge steel arena. Other stars are La Belle Marie, on the swmging and balancing trapeze, Story and Lindsay, hand-to-hand and head-to-head balancers and upside-down equilibrists, the Lenton Sisters, flying trapeze artists, the nine Delcos tumbling maniacs, the Bozelle troupe of1 girl acrobats, the Ridgway familyj whirlwind tumblers, Cico and Coco, comedy artists on rickety ladders, and the famous Ashton, . one of the greatest whip-crackers. The shpw also includes performing elephaxfts. horses, ponies, high and long jump greyhounds, and monkey jockeys. The circus opens on Tuesday nest in Market street North, near St. Aubyn stireet.