WHIRLGIG OF PARIS GAIETY. M. Molier's Novel Circus, Where Clowns and Jockeys Are Men of Title.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 2

WHIRLGIG OF PARIS GAIETY. M. Molier's Novel Circus, Where Clowns and Jockeys Are Men of Title.

Thk lepresc stations giver aby^the •CoaatqueMolier every spring are among, the fetes, the most sought after . vx all the, year. There the clowns are not? ordinary clowns. Dukes, baJK^sancl com 1 pa, fiU these roles make dangerous leaps, tyain hoi'oes and c even pigs. The horsemen, gymnasts., all, have titter Tho programmes are works* of art, the? names of , the artist? ayo, written i over thci,,* portraits, and the.mofet 'vonderful: perfonr-iuvjo is prom'sctV, to the, few fortunate oapiigh to bo invited. La Tfochefoucald " Or.e^bf nameslower than elevate tho<so avJiq/Jq not, know to supparfci them," but Count Hubert cle la Rouo &e.foucald .,, .-vlinndsoine) youn;* man, jumps, from, on't, fixed, bar to> anot'\Qr, a.s did Ijiy ancestor Uvm ma^im. proiQ.-tnd to maxiiA.suWime} 'Jin e French, nobles of the presu),t> day \wiltl Uq mor& res A«HJted did the y^ belong hq,t<tie school o£ th^1,5,011 of the c graders ty valett dc-o.hambre sail every laoiviingj, " Mon>~ &i j«.r le Conte, c l^ n,ot fprfjeti tljafc you l)a,ve> soaiething 1 ver^v great Ivp do -Jthis dayj* ("Vvaritable oneH.»3-y thai $\QW- gentle«x«n l^velo]) their muscles in onlei; t& he able, to •j«ht -when wr^.shail be, dqqUui^. I But, all cri'aci?ni aside,, M- holier sets a jfasliion and 'iaQeives his fisienc^ in a ciir&us. |Ho loves ho\s.e3 and o^ns o* '?«o/.en, besides 'linules, moneys and oU^qu aoimals Cfas>able ot training. HimseVf,,. Ijq L'^as the &^pearance of a Uftv^eman, a?)d, h ; a hou.««e 4 , At the entrance efitjie Boi§ dq B&nlogue, ie- charming. Tlwp his co»»paj2i<?>ns come 1o fence, to prac&fiq gynwa&fcicsH to train horses. One da^ tiiey doj?id.ed to appear before a public uojpposcfl only cm their m-i&b intimate friend j< Their success was astonishing and the py,fqr,inanee-, was. repeated. To reach tlie cecils, which is. also connected with M. Mol*"ipi''Jj- house,, vc cross a hall, then a 1 gallery whose wj-lks att) covered AvitJi pictures; representing phenomena of (he entire worlds Fjojjj this gallery we enter the billiardroom ; the*v descending a staircase, we axo* near the '"ixnj*." Very few persons are admittod to. the grcen-ioom, -where c\.t^ to. be fouiul English lords and French clukes^ ! all d rosed, a>? clow ns or jockeys. r X§s vc '. heavsivls are very interesting, and t&Q. seen« is wondox'fully picturesque ; oftQß fifty gentlemon and ladies aie in tfe.? private boxes ; the horsemen, in fccax'l^t tunics, knots of blue ribbon on the-ir shoulders, place themselves in lino, white M* Molier, a rider of the havte ecole, wins. feho bravos of his friends. These grands seigneurs are aided by genuine ciicv^ uders, of whom Mile. Violat and her friend, JNllle, Melie, are the most celcbiated. Mile. Violat stands on a table, holds a hat that Melie knocks on the floor ; the latter then enters a cask thai Violat rolls as sho dances.