WIRTHS’ CIRCUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 302, 13 March 1928, Page 17

WIRTHS’ CIRCUS

A WONDERFUL VARIETY The merits of any show are best calculated on the attendances. If there continues to be crowded audiences the entertainment is first-rate. Wirths’ Circus, on the old dock site, is crowded at every performance. A more remarkable variety could barely be imagined. Wirths assert that they have never brought round a better circus, and those who seen several visits will agree. They have everything’ from a towering clown—he is round the Bft mark —to a wonderful bear that rides a three-tier bicycle or skates with equal facility. Among them are elephants that balance on their front feet only, jugglers, acrobats, trapeze artists, a man who appears to be most comfortable on his head and slides a tight-rope in that position, lions that do all manner of tricks, horses that are almost human, including a beautiful goldencoloured animal that poses perfectly, a lady who dances in the lions’ den, an Indian trick cyclist who is nothing short of marvellous. Interspersed are all the usual circus stunts and animal tricks. It is an entertainment for young or old, and animal lovers or vaudeville habitues will find every thrill they desire.

In her first light comedy Master Picture for Warner Bros., Dolores Costello will have William Collier, jun., as her leading man. This will be in a picturisation of George Ade’s play, “The College Widow,” which Archie Mayo is directing. The selection of young Collier for this role is the result of his splendid work in two other Warner productions, “Dearie,” and

“The Desert Woman,” both of which star Irene Rich and are also for Master Picture release.