The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11

car. she proves herself an actress by shifting the expression of ~her pretty face to that of glad surprise at being still alive.
 The Hippodrome always whoops the circus section of its program while the big all circus show Is at the Madison Square Garden. This time. it opposes to La Roche a CDora, handsome woman who "flirts with death" That Is to J say, she rides a motorcycle around and around the inner circle of a big globe. at first on its lower space. next higher on its sides. and finally straight up to and over the top. with herself and the machine top down an1 descending the opposite side. As many as twenty times she makes these circuits at a speed so high that the ceri- trifugal force keeps the wheels press ed against the steel-netted interior surface of the great ball. If this were the first of the feats similar an priEi- ciple, 1t would excite the spectators madly. CDofa's, feat requires much skill, besides<the passive nerve of La Roche, but both are too late to create furore. I imagine, though. that the active C'Dora gets $500 week to the inert La Roche's $50.
 - Don't think, however. that any other salary for a conspicuous act in the Ringing show costs so little in pay for the performer. At one time five equestrians that cant cost less than $3,000 are in the rings; at another three troupes of trapeze dare devils look like as much or more in cash; and again the platforms as we'll as the rings are occupied by the best grades of acrobats numerously and very expensively. This circus Is uncommonly attractive with its women in white costumes of the jauntiest possible styles. The girls of horseback and trapeze, of wire walking and acrobatic tumbling, are costumed as never before in sure enough silks and satins cut to make them look more coquettish than mas culine.
 The takingest, fetchingest, exciting est novelty is girly, too. suppose that the Sampson who makes of him self bridge for a big motor car loaded with joy-riders to pass over is a greater wonder; but the stunt of the Curzons, nattiest of graceful girls is the head-iiner, top-sawyer, or what ever else it is that in circus parlance means the big bluff brilliant. Really. though, all that is required of the Cur, zon girls is that they shall look pret- ty. as they easily do with what nature and art have done for them, and they stop taIking-literally hold their jaws for about five minutes. They take into their mouths each a hunk of something or other at the end of wire dangling from huge lamp-shade, with so very bright an electric light in it that they are illuminated from above much as Loie Fuller used to be from underneath in her "Serpentine" dances. Thus suspended by their teeth, they are swiftly lifted to the utmost height of the garden, there to do stunts like Tenderloin show girls transformed to gleeful angels floating friskily in Paradise.
 Who said "serpentine2" T. We'll. in Holy Weeks dramatic sfagnation. that reminds me of the good old amiable snake that Is made to enact a vicious viper. I wrote to you about Prin- cess Rajah, who. being transformed from ten-cent museum in the Bowery to a S2 vaudeville theatre in Broad way, had her stunt of oriental snake charming and cootchie dancing liftel to an ornate portrayal of Cleopatra and her suicidal asp. Such novelties are ephemeral here. and Rajah's sixth probably tapered in draught. Some thing booming needed to be done. The advertising agent did 1t. He told that the fat and, fangless snake. who had represented the poisonous reptile, and kindly obliged lady by darting his head at her lips q guess they were smeared with something that snakes ,iote on) had suddenly gone wicked as 1 though bent on biting Cleopatra in earnest
 In my vaudeville visit to Johnson the negro prizefighter, came again upon the Princess Rajah. Would this yellow African let the black African overshadow herr Not if she knew her business. As when I had seen her be- fore. she let the snake almost touch her lips; but this tHne--oh sure-the reptile struck his fangs into her tongue what was the good of fncredulity' She gave low outcry of pain--would you doubt a lady2-and spat out q mouthful of red-well, blood, wasn't fl why question the genuineness of a stunt that you have paid your roo,J money to see? say hurrah for RaJah She gave me the only theatrical thrill of week.
 Franklin Fyles
 
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