ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 207, 2 March 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

WIRTH'S CIRCUS, LTD. Wirth Bros.' Circus, Ltd., described as the "Greatest show on earth," opens in New Plymouth on Monday, March 2 (to-night) for one night only. There is always something about the circus that carries with it a universal appeal, especially so with Mirth's ciivin. I'/ich year sees them come along with more beautiful ladies, more captivating horses, liner lions and tigers, more ponderous elephants and funnier clowns than the last time. This vcar the spectacle is of more than ordinary merit. Nearly 1(11) performers comprise the company, and thev include Dare Devil Desperado, the" Audacious Aerial Athlete, who will defy danger by leaping head foremost from a height of 87 feet, alighting on a concave platform of solid wood upon his chest and hands. It would not be Wirth's circus without an animal act, and this season's is the most novel and interesting of the many that have been introduced by the enterprising management being given also by Doblados' performing sheep and pigs,' the only ad of its kind in the world, a group of a dozen pure white polar bears who, assisted by two grizzlies and a pair of splendid boar hounds, exhibit an intelligence that is absolutely astonishimr. These beautiful animals also form one of the main attractions of the menagerie, which will be open from 4 to » p.m. and which also contains the only hippopotamus and a large mandrill in AusI tralasia.

There are also performing lions, tiger, leopards, camels anil other strange animals, the wonderful elephant lien;, and with one of the lionesses two vomitcubs. " n