WIRTH BROS’ CIRCUS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 8

WIRTH BROS’ CIRCUS.

SPECTACULAR AND NOVEL ACTS. Thrills, gay pageantry and spectacle that only a circus as largo as Wirth’s can provide, will be witnessed when this famous circus visits Palmerston North on Friday and Saturday next, Together with a stupendous collection of new act and displays centralised in this super circus and city of sawdust and spangles, are acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers, and performing animals, who all play their full share, and, of course, there is a bevy of new English, American, and Continental clowns who arc always an essential feature of the circus. The show comprises 23 hours of fast-moving turns, varied, sensational and amusing, and Mr Philip Wirth, always an impressive ringmaster, keeps the audience right up to concert pitch. Animals have their own appeal, particularly when they arc monsters of the jungle, doing their tricks. This season’s performance leads from climax to climax, and Mr Wirth has a company that surpasses oven the highest standards set in New Zealand by this family, famous in this department of entertainment for ovor 60- years. In the South Island country towns and at Dunedin and Christchurch, Wirth’s 1 circus _ played to capacity houses, niglit after night, and is. enjoying the saino big reception in tho North Island; so far the tour this season constitutes a record for New Zealand and the- audiences show their appreciation of this attraction of unusual merit. Accompanying the big show is a complete stud of beautiful and marvellously trained horses, a herd of nine elephants, and a vast super menagerie of strange, wild animals, brought from tho four corners of the universe, not forgetting “Harold,” the orang-outang, in amazing tricks and comic antics. The zoo is open in the afternoon from 4' to 5 p.m. Seale may bo reserved at Collinson and Cunninghame’s, and the location will be near the Empire Hotel in Main Stroct. There will bo a matinee for the children on Saturday at 2.30.