AMONG LIONS.
SYDNEY MAN’S PLUCK FOll CHARITY.
SYDNEY, May 5. Mr A. D. Playfair, a Sydney business man, entered the lion’s den at Wirth’s Circus to-day and for 10 minutes looked the live lions in the face. The occasion was a special circus matinee in aid of the limbless soldiers’ benevolent fund. Mr Playfair had agreed to enter the den ns a special attraction. It is just over 20 years since he performed a similar feat. That was at Orange, where he dared the Royal Bengal tigers. Nothing happened then, but the following night one of the attendants had a foot bitten offt
For his pluck at Orange Mr Playfair was presented with a medal, which he lost, and to-day Mr Philip Wirth handed him a replica
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3641, 21 May 1927, Page 1
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127AMONG LIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3641, 21 May 1927, Page 1
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