THE GLOBE OF DEATH.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 26 February 1917, Page 5

THE GLOBE OF DEATH.

One of the most genuine sensational acts ever seen in Vaudeville in Wellington is the “Globe of Death” act, says the Dominion, presented by the Staigs at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening. In this desperate act the performers positively flirt with death for any misjudgment of pace or failure of nerve must result in an accident better imagined than describ ed. Imagine a big globe, 18ft in diameter, made of criss-crossed bands of steel. Inside this wicker work globe

two of the Staigs, a man and a woman, mount on ordinary safety bicycles, and tear round and round at a giddy pace, passing each other with only inches to spare, until the roots of the hair begin to tingle, and one gets a shivery feeling up and down the spine. Then two of the men raise the hair “like quills upon the fretful porcupine” by whirling round the in- , terior of the globe in opposite direc- 1 tions at different altitudes. Miss Staig : goes one better by doing a hair raising ' whirl on a motor-cycle. The culmin- 1 ating wonder, however, is' y when her i brother “loops the loop,” not once, but ,

half a dozen times on u motor cycle an astonishing feat which crested a furore. This performance will he shmvn on the Show Ground", In Tarhape on Wednesday, at popular prices.