The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-03

where do 1 come in?" he asked-v
though let us believe in more dignified
phraseOlOgy. PLAY Jacques" was the
reasonable answer. And l believe Sir
Henry did go so far as to put this
comedy into rehearsal, with himself as
the chatty philosopher That is the
role Mr.. Sothern finally decided upon
and is now, for the first time, playing
At the opening of the Barnum &
Bailey show, 1 had just come to the
conclusion that no circus feat could
ever again thrill me, then horse made
me SILVER. He stood on a small, IN
rallied platform that was being hoist
ed to a height of eighty feet. First
night nervousness made him FESTIVE.
He wouldn't stay still, but pranced un-
til his hind hoofs were at the edge. He
was too fine a beast to see killed by
fall. Then, too, on his back was girl
who looked too nice to be broken up,
Accident at Circus.
When the time came for the flying
trapezes, and the air of the great
structure was alive with swinging,
plunging, whirling daredevils. a wom-
an in her flight missed the mans hands
that should have caught her. The sec
ton of spectators watching that par
ticular act gave out a curious blend Of
sounds, from gaspS to screams; but she
struck in the net that New York law
prescribes and wasn't hurt a bit. This
slight mishap didn't CULVER a nerve OF
me and 1 said that, pshaw, what was
the good of coming to the circus TO get
stirred up? The next minute. how
ever, my heart skipped beat and my
lips shaped yell that was noiseless.
Two brothers were doing their ira
peze stunt scarce twenty feet away
from my box, measuring laterally, but
forty TO fifty up aloft; and 1 was
watching them because no net was un-
derneath. One hung down with small
bar suspended from his mouth. The
other swung towards him, let go,
somersaulted and caught the bar. But
the hanging ones front teeth broke
with the impact and down went his
brother, TO strike the ground hard and
lie motionless until carried out. Both
his wrists were broken, and II may be
months before the poor fellow can get
back to earning a living by risking his
life. 4,
The rislkiest thing done in this three
ring and two-platform circus this year
is plunge from a high perch, head
foremost, through long gap Of empty
air, then to srike on steep incline, and
somersault. The newest thing is bal
ANGER who does his feats at the top
of thin sixty-foot pole, probably
made of steel, that bends, sways and
whiris with his weight.
When March brings the annual big
gest show on earth" to the Madison
Square Garden, the Hippodrome COM
petes with an imported novelty IN the
circus section of its entertainment.
This time 1t is a company of dwaTfs. 1t
wouldn't seem possible to assemble
fifty acrobats, none above forty inches
| in height, not one showing any de-
! formity and all possessing real talent.
! They enter in a parade Of small car
riages drawn by ponies. During an
hour ensuing they fill three rings with
usual and first-rate circus activities
acrobatic, gymnatic, equestrian = a
strong woman and very comic clown
not to mention a ballet of condensed
show girls. In Paris they occupy an
entire evening. Here they are COM
! pressed into less than an hour. New
York likes to take its diversions with
rush.