THE GIRARD BROTHERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4358, 9 March 1875, Page 3

THE GIRARD BROTHERS.

These artists are about to appear in the Odd Fellows' Hall for a season of four nights only, commencing on Wednesday. As there is some curiosity about them, we annex the opinion of a Northern contemporary, who writes of them as follows : To those who have not seen them it is utterly impossible to convey an accurate impression of the feats they go through in the way of saltatorial performances. One of the simplest of their evolutions is, for one of them to. kick his own hat off, or to walk to the wing of the stage and stretch his leg up over his head, extending it as high as his hand could reach. A couple of very wide and very soft hats were brought on the stage. One of the brothers set these spinning, and kept them going with little sticks. This of itself was a clever and ditilcult feat, but it was rendered more so by the fact that while spinning in this way he guided it under Ins legs and around his body dining three successive somersaults, and still kept the bat spinning, and was at length dragged about the stage by the legs, and never once let the hat drop or lose its balance. One of the principal features of their entertainment is the ease with which they perform what to ordinary mortals would be physical impossibilities. There is no rest nor pause, nor is there any wild tumbling or springin J, It is from first to last an extraordinary dancing performance. At first they appeared on the stage in a grotesque dance, in which their feet wound wildly about each others' heads. Subsequently their appearance was changed with lightning-like rapidity, and two of them appeared in black skin-tight dresses, the third being dressed in a red suit not unlike that of Mephistopheles in "Faust," and then commenced a scries of those extraordinary evolutions to which we have referred. They appear to be boneless and jointless, or if their limbs have joints-they must have as many as the vertebras of a serpent.