A FAMOUS CIRCUS.

Shannon News, 10 February 1922, Page 1

A FAMOUS CIRCUS.

A real travelling menagerie, with its four ponderous elephants, lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, jackals, polar bears, brown and grizzly bears, monkeys, etc. A real circus, with real ring horses and performing ponies, horses in liberty acts, and horses in menage acts, all young and blue-blooded, performing elephants, trained lions and tigers. A circus and menagerie that takes three trains to convey it from place to place. Such a circus" is (hat owned and personally conducted by the Messrs Wirth Bros., whose home is Australia. It is Australia's representative show, organised by the present owners in Sydney in 1880 after years of travel and experience. It has twice travelled the world, the only circus in the world to accomplish this feat. It has met opposition in strange lands, and has always come out victorious. The proprietors'have travelled round the globe a dozen times, seeking novelties and sensations. They have been every where,,seen everything, and got everything worth having, their vast experience teaching them the wants of the public, and they spare no expense in satisfying their needs. Each year this huge circus has grown and improved, until now it is one of the greatest amusement institutions under the sun. There are only two other travelling circuses in the ; world that can compare with this immense aggregation, whose towering stature throws its mighty shadow on all others, and envelopes them in the dim twilight of the commonplace. It is indeed a huge concern employing nearly 200 hands, 80 horses, and scores of dens of animals, its huge marquee, capable of holding 5000 persons, is covered in throughout, and is both wind and waterproof, and has thousands of yards more canvas in its construction than all other shows in Australia combined. Its proof this year is a veritable network of aerial riggings, on which perform the very best aerialists the-world has ever seen.