WIRTH’S CIRCUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 16

WIRTH’S CIRCUS

OPENING ON MONDAY Accustomed as city audiences are to being thrilled by the most unexpected sensations, the season which Wirth’s world-famous circus has just concluded in Sydney and Melbourne, has undoubtedly been successful. Sensation follows sensation in this season’s programme with such rapidity that it can safely be said that Wirth’s have this year excelled themselves in their offering for the community’s entertainment. The big tent will be pitched on the Old Dock Site on Monday, and the first performance will be given on Monday evening. At a cost of £5,000, Wirth Brothers, have secured the most wonderful performing Polar and Brown Bear Act in the world. Some of the new artists are: The Lias Trope of six Risley acrobats—the highest salaried artists in the world; the Five Flying La Mars, who made Sydney’s hair stand on end with their extraordinary trapeze work; and the Three Arconas, who made many tthousiuids gasp with astonishment at their wonderful balancing feats (the beautiful Betty Arcona, fully substantiates her claim to tiie title of “the most daring woman in the world”); Claudia Alba, world’s famous feminine athlete and partner, and the Santey Duo, aerial torpedoes. Then there are new trained animal acts with Miss Madeline, famous for her serpentine dance on horseback, and Mr. Philip Wirth, Junior, and his trained horses and ponies. Fully a score of other turns round out a wonderful programme, which is preceded by a.n hour allowed for the inspection of the animals in the menagerie. The menegerie has been added to since the show last visited this town, and includes two black panthers and two baby leopards, six polar and five brown bears.