The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-10
SOMETHING new
in AERIAL ACTS.
GREAT FRENCH SPECTACULAR
NOVELTY TO BE SEEN WITH
RINsLlNe CIRCUS WHICH WILL
BE IN FARGO ON SATURDAY,
JULY 20.

The Human Butterfly act, a sensa-
tional aerial spectacle which has
amazed Europe. will be seen with
Ringing Bros circus in this city soon.
1t is the most beautiful and at the
same time the most daring of high-air
performances.
The three Ty-BelI sisters, the or
iginators of the act, who presented it
in Europe, have been engaged to repeat
it here. They are the most beautiful
women who ever appeared before am
audience in Paris. The act was en-
gagged by one Of the foreign agents of
the circus at a salary exceeding any
amount eve paid for another circus
act. 1t is absolutely a departure from
stereotyped aerlalists. 1t must not be
~Gonfounded with common iron-jaw
Performances, which are often exc
cuted in air to give them the appear
ance of danger, but which in reality
are very tame affairs that no end of
flowing robes and ribbon showers can
lift from the mediocre.
These three Venus-like girls are sus-
pended from the dome of the tent by
means of slender steel wires. To these
they cling with the mere use Of their
lCElls ~ BY 81 HlSdilS OI . iIlNlSlDlS ma
chinery above them, they are made TO
revolve, dart, fly and circle through
space with the grace and ease of sea
gulls. Throughout the act a battery
Of calciums and electric spot lights
food them in fantastic coIors with
Kaleidoscope effect.
The act is enhancing because of It's
sublime splendor, its perfect grace and
ethereal beauty. The great danger and
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quite evident to spectators, give it also
a breathless and thrilling interest, with
a dash of suspense thrown in. The
girls are clothed in flowing silk as
delicate as cobwebs. They have long
wings of fine spun glass. There is an
unearthly charm to the spectacle that
makes it seem more like a dream than
reality.
1t is a thriller of the most pro-
nounced kind. There is no gallows-
like rigging about ii to- give it the
CHASTITY suggestion of the bolide leap
Tthe-gap-somersault effects Of the past.
1t is a happy mining of the thrilling,
the beautiful and the spectacular that
appeals to the senses of the most deli
cate as well as the fancy of the NOR
bid minded.
There are many other sensational
acts on the list, and the unusually
bLAlildIII pCIAOE ulduC6 VIII D6E1u WITH
the great spectacle, Joan of Arc, en-
ploying 1,200 persons, 500 horses, a bal
let Of 800 dancing girls, a large chorus
and a trainload of specially built
scenery and stage properties. No cir
Gus in the past has ever attempted
such a gigantic project as this one.
This spectacle alone, which is a part
of the regular performance and entails
no extra charge of admission, cost the
p fn cline RrOr VEn0 mn To mill H. -nov,
! n Fargo on Saturday, July 20, just as
it was presented at the coliseum in
Chicago where the show began the
season in April.
Other remarkable acts, new to this
country, are the es-Kimball family
of ~acrobats, the Rooney family Of the
worlds best equestrians, Captain HUI
ling's trained seals, and Carlos Gaze
saro, the Human Top" The men