THE ARNST SHOW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 466, 12 August 1909, Page 3

THE ARNST SHOW.

Mr Brown Parker arrived yesterday ahead of the Arost Vaudeville and Picture Company, to make arrangements for the opening of a season at the local Public Hall. Mr Parker is the man who won fame in the colonies as an extremely clever “ ball puncher ” with the Rickards shows, and he appears also with the Arnst combination as well as occupying the post of manager. The company he has in hand consists of Dick Arnst, champion sculler of the world, a picture show, and a vaudeville combination. To show his methods in sculling Arnst will be seen exercising in a hometrainer, which is fitted like a sculling boat, with weights adjusted so that the effect is the same as if he was on the water. He will be assisted in this by his

pacemaker, Fogwell. “Jack” Arnst, brother of the champion, who himself is champion long discyclist of Australasia will give exhibitions on a bicycle ' home-trainer, and will race any challenger over a distance of five miles, to be recorded on the cyclometer. The men will pedal for all they are worth in front of the audience, and the result will the same as if they were on a bicycle track, though they will not move an inch. “ Jack ” Arnst will also be prepared to meet challengers on a handicap basis. “Dick” Arnst has secured the rights to the only film of the last Arnst-Webb boat race as rowed at Wanganui on 22nd June last. The papers speak in the highest praise of the merits of this picture. The management also has a large shipment of films from England, which include the recently described Oxford-Cambridge boat race, and the only moving picture taken of the Pope and his court at the Vatican.