WIRTH BROS.' CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10156, 4 February 1911, Page 7

WIRTH BROS.' CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE.

Wirth Bros.' greatest show on earth will perform in Masterton to-night, Saturday, February 4th, one night only, in its entirety. We are assured that the whole or the enormous enterprise will he here, as the Wirth Bros.' never divide, but travel and perform everything everywhere. The circus this season is full of novel, original, and daring features engaged from the best circuses and music halls in the world. Each year Messrs Wirth Bros.' introduce new and sensational specialities, and sinee the visit •of this world-renowned circus, two years a,go, many additions to both circus and menagerie have been secured. Amongst the circus artists to appear here are the wonderful Frantz troupe of society acrobats;' the Healeys in their marvellous and unique barrel jumping act, somersaulting in and out of ordinary barrels in a wonderful fashion; Mdlle. Mille Sagmar, Avith her beautiful school of trained dogs and ponies; the tossing testros, marvellous equilibrists and jugglers; the Lentons, acrobatic, comedy actors; Miss Daisy and May Harley, aerialists; Miss Rill, Stella, and May Martin, graceful equestriennes; Madame Edith Cooke and Marizles in beautiful menage act on two thoroughbred liorses; the Willey Cooke Bros., bounding jockeys and mashers on horseback ; the Christies, Raymond the gaolbreaker; and dozens of clowns, augusts, and comedy men specially engaged for this season. Besides the wonderful circus aggregation, the huge menagerie is filled with dens of ; the fiercest and most unique animals, gathered from every land and clime,' and includes a herd of seven performing elephants; an arena full of lions, tigers, bears, wolves, leopards, jaguars/kangaroos, dogs, and ponies all performing together—truly a strange gathering—and for the first time in our town a real live hippopotamus,. which cost the Wirth Bros.' £1250. A new departure, and one that will be I greatly appreciated is an elevated ' chair platform, which is now carried with the show, and on which chairs may be reserved.