The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-09-26

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From The San Francisco Chronicle
We doubt if more thrilling spec
tacle has ever been presented under
canvass on the Pacific Co than that
which has been for the past two eve
nings introduced here in Ethel Italian
Circus on Jackson street.-the doublej
trapeze performance of Mile MlliIe
Grace and Henry Clark, who have
electrified the public by their marvel
Gus double acts in mid air. The pro-
priety of such exhibitions, attended
as they are by imminent peril to the
life and limb of the performers, may
we'll be doubted; but so long as thea
public crave the excitement of seeing
their fellow-mortals peril their lives1
for its amusement, so long will the
excitement bedurnished. 1t is diff
cult TO give AaA accurate idea Iof the
blood -cnrdlihs spectacle. Thaaady is
a model of grace and beauty, 1.-the
and supple as q cat in every movement
but giving no outward indication of.
the marvellous strength required To-
act her difficult and perilous part.
AS she makes her appearance in the
ring an involuntary murmur of admit
ration arises from the dense throng Of
spectators she smiles a grateful ac-
knowledgemeRt stanaiagz ben eat = the;
trapeze, and, graspingsa line, Aseends
hand overland and takes heI pfaf e
on the bar, twenty feet above 1he
ground, where she is joined an instant
afterwards by her fellow performer.
A moment of rest, and then follow in
rapid succession, all the difficult poses
and dangerous acts usually performed
on the trapeze, everything being done
| with an apparent ease and confidence
that elicits rounds of applause. An
| other rest, and then Mr.. Clark glides
to the upper bar, and then follow a
series af feats exciting in the last de-
gree, the interest being greatly intens-
flied by the ideasthat one sof those &c
eomplished and daring performers bis
a woman. Clark, suspended by his
feet from the upper bar, places band
over the back of his head. Mile
Grace, standing upright on the lower
bar, adjusts the suspended loop to the
back of her own head, and, kicking
away the bar, swings to and fro for
several seconds in thatperifops posi-
ton. Buckiing stout leather strap
about her loins, Mile Grace next
glides up one of the ropes to her
companion, and in another instant is
seen suspended horizontally in mid
air. sustained only by small leather
strap held between Clark's teeth,
while he is himself snspehded from
the upper bar by his feet! All this
is wonderful, and the interest is in
tense; but in another moment the
whole scene is reversed. Clark de-
scends to the lower bar, while the wo-
man. takes. his place, and slight as she
appears, she apparen tE supperfs her
eemraae, d who is q large hdhEEA man,
with as much ease as he had support
ed her; but when she performs the
herculean feat of sustaining for sever
al seconds her robust companion by a
leather strap between her pearly teeth,
that -giddy he5g Az merely IbS her feet
the interest of the spectators gives
4 place to downright astonishment.
Clark then resumes his piaeepn the
lower BAR, and in a few moments be-
gins o series of performances on his
4 own hook, while Mile Grace on the
/ upper bar takes,theAfe Fest she evidently
Il needs. A fey seconds elapse. Clark
is lying horizontally across the lower
bar; Mile Graeeis preparing to- imi-
II tate him, when she suddenly loses her
1 place and falls heavily on his breast,
whirling him from, His position. An
involuntary cry Of dismay rises on
4 every side; but the next moment
Il Clark is seen suspended from the bar
by one foot, and Mile Grace, clasping
one of his strong hands, swings safely
and gracefully between him and the
ground Catching the line, they
both descend quickly to the ground,
acknowledge the deafening applause
by profuse salntations to the excited
Spectators, and sdisappo6H ifrbm the
ring.