WIRTH'S CIRCUS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10541, 25 January 1912, Page 6

WIRTH'S CIRCUS

A FINE SHOW. The animal visit of Wirth Bros.' circus to Masterton takes place tonight. They introduce each year something 'new, fresh and edifying, for while the Wirths' "greatest show on earth" is a great amusement enterprise, it is also an educational institution of importance and value- • avliidi instinctively* appeals .to young land old. Having agents everywhere on earth seeking out new and novel | (features for the amusement of its paI trons. it -makes known t<> Australasia i I the startling exploits of other couu-' ■ tries or originates mew sensations; it | exhibits scores of super!) horses, the very pick of Australian studs, and it (brings to the cloors of tho Australian ■public .strange people and odd and curious animals from every spot on earth. This .year the proprietors have excelled all previous efforts, for they Shave engaged from America and Europe no less than thirty-five new artists and twenty new wild animals. Amongst the latter are ten pure white fell grown. Polar bears, which, together with two American buffaloes, three grizzly shears, and two beautiful Russian l>oar hounds, perform' & remarkabe act, irrespective of their j value for show purposes, as this is | tlie largest group of P'olar bears in existence, and cost Wirth Bros. £2OOO plus their .fare and expenses from Hamburg. The circus artists, too, are the very best in their line the world can produce, and include the .seven Flying Jordan s, double company of aerialists; the beautiful sisters Adelia and George, acrobatic javire-walkers; Aif Tack, .the upsidedown phenomenon ; La Van Artois kind Stump, aerial horizontal bar performers; Foj and Kitchen, trampoline experts;, Harry Barge and; Co., of six comedians in comedy, .act on ■a real motor oar"; Herr and "Fraulein Schmidt, Polar bear educators, and tlie Basitein family of eleven, who perforin an acrobatic feat on horseback.