ST. LEON’S CIRCUS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4347, 25 November 1921, Page 3

ST. LEON’S CIRCUS.

APPEARING IN PAEROA ON DECEMBER 8. Like good wine, St. Leon’s Circus improves with age. It -has a record possessed by no other similar enterprise in Australasia, and like Tennyson’s brook seems destined to go on for ever. The sterling merits of the 20 new acts perfected during “wintering” in the Sunny South give the compact show a character that makes strong appeal, and the reception accorded the company in Invercargill may be .taken as a sure augury of a successful tour. Though it does nor boast an extensive menagerie, when it comes to skill and daring on the trapeze, horizontal bars’, tight wire, and general acrobatics, St. Leon has a coterie of performers who can claim favourable comparison with the stars that Chiarini, Cole, Fillis, Fitzgerald, Worth, and others have made familiar to us. The Odessa brothers on the trippie horizontal bars provide a remarkably fine .act, executed with unerring precision, while handsome Senorita Delores, queen of the flying trapeze, performs a great variety of graceful evolutions -with as much •sangfroid as if on terra firma. Millie Golder on the wire is a marvel, balancing herself on a board across the wire, leaping between hoops, and finanlly over a chair, landing on the other side with perfect poise. St Leon’s acrobats introduce pew sensations, including a triple somersault, and are ably seconded by the juvenite Honey trio. The equestrian performances are good, especially Ray St. Leon’s four flying steed's. The trained dogs display astonishing sagacity, .especially .the collie "Paddy,” justifying the claim that he gives, the finest dog act in the circus world. Professor Morris with his trained sheep and pigs made a decided hit, and the new business introduced by the clowns, led by the veteran Gus 9ft- Leon, evoked uproarious hilarity. The Southland News, September 5, 1921. St. Leon’s Circus will be in Paeroa on Show night, Thursday, December 8. They will bring their entire circus by special train.