Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-12

cast were thoroughly in keeping in
merit.
The chorus made up of pretty girls
and good eolid voices did most excellent
work-the finale OF the second act be-
ing splendidly sungss The Merry Mon
arch will be given tonight and Wednes.
dav, and Thursday the new operetta
The Lion Tanner will be produced.
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The circus was crowded at both per-
formances yesterday, by thousands OF
people who seemed to be more than
satisfied with the entertainments given
them. Though the admission charged
is but half OF that usually demanded,
the show is in all respects equal, and in
some points superior to that given the.
last time the company appeared here.
The menagerie has been largely added
to, among other features being pair of
Bengal tigers, which are in themselves
q whole show. They are magnificent
beasts, beautiful in proportions, 1.-THE
and graceful to an ipdescribable degree,
wonderfully expressive of the mystery,
the cruelty and the beauty of the
jungle.
The ring performances are startling
and novel; some of the trapeze perform
ers particularly deserve recognition for
performing feats which would be pro.
nounced impossible by anyone who had
not seen them. The horses are hand
some, well trained, and the riders, both
women and men, are skillful to re-
markable degree.
A very interesting feature is ihe per-
formance of the trained seals. Barnum,
way back in the seventies, used to have
a seal that would play a hand organ,
which was then thought to be wonder
ful, but these seals, besides
evincing wonderful amount of
intelligence in various tricks, sing
ballad with chorus; it is in the seal
language of course, but is entertaining
none the less. The clown is there just
as funny as he used to be, and is very
numerous. He has to be since the two
rings have come into fashion, and there
is Spanish danseuse who is very fetch
ing. The country girls look at her out
OF the corner OF their eyes, but the men
regret not having brought an opera
glass when her draperies begin to lut-
ter. The midair act by the famous Sill
bon FIRMLY was very thrilling. Walter
Silbon made double eomersault from
one trapeze and was caught as he was
descending by his brother, who WAS sus-
pended from another trapeze. The BIZ
cycle performance by the celebrated
Stirk family is a great feature of the
show. They do wonderful act and
Baby Elsie captured the hearts of the
little ones.
Today there will be parade at 10
O'Clock, and two performances, one at 2
this afternoon and ore at night. To-
morrow the company will show at Col
ton.
That there is plenty of spare cash in
and about Los Angeles is evidenced by
the tremendous attendance. Last even
ing fully 1000 people were turned away,
the tremendous crowd causing the man
agement to cease selling tickets and
close the entrance to the tent soon after
8 O'Clock.
The existence of strong attractions in
the way of amusement at other places
last night had no effect upon the num-
bers that now make it their regular
business to attend the historical lee
lures of Professor Moses, at the Chnrch
OF the Unity. Last evening the audi
ence was the largest yet assembled, and
the subject, namely:
"Tbe rise and spread of the Moham-
medan faith, and it's influence upon
civilization" was treated with all the
breadth and freedom that make the
learned lecturers matter so attractive.
The discourse tomorrow night will be
upon "The Crusades, with some account
of their social and political influence on
Europe" This is subject that is
highly attractive, and will do doubt in
sure the attendance of the members of
the order of knights Templar among
many others, the order tracing it's
origin back to the time and events
treated of by the professor.