Fitzgeraids' Circus.

Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1895, Page 2

Fitzgeraids' Circus.

Fitzgerland Bros.' new London ; Company, combined with a monster circus and menagerie, appear at Foxton on Monday evening. Speaking of their performance an exchange says :— " The performance waieer* tainly capital, and did not belie tjbwr ideas previously formed by the $&b* lie concerning it. Madame Antonio, ; the most graceful of gymnasts, playing a tambourine whilst spinning on a cross bar high in the air, gave no half-hearted kind of trapeze exhibit tion, bat the perfection of what ease, practice, and nerve can offer. When the double-somersault and drop into the not were over, loud cheers made the canvas tremble. The delighted audience would not restrain its enthusiasm for some minutes. The Brothers Eclair, in their acrobatic feats have never been surpassed. . . .In the line of educated; bo&n^ Commodore and Mahomet demjejav;. strate all that can be acoorapl|^.|L

in this way. The sagacity of these horses is marvellous. Commodore is a clever little fellow, but Mahomet leemfl to have reason. In his calculations, Mahomet can do suni3 to the •attraction of any school inspector, and altogether the horse fairly illustrates what may be achieved by first-class direction and system and an inexhaustible amount of patience. The other portions of the entertainment were high-class and special, the riding, tumbling, and balancing being received with enthusiasm, especially tbe performances of the little coloured boy, who propelled a globe about two feet in diameter by the beatings of his bare toes upon it, steering and balancing it up hill and down dale with wonderful skill.