The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-08
FAIR CROWDS LIKE
THE DIVING GIRLS
VENUS RISING FROM THE WAVES
HAS NOTHING on THE M&IpENs
FROM REVERE BEACH.
AERIAL STUNTS GOOD
PROFESSOR HuTCuIsoN's MID-AIa
bomb A THRILL LII PRO-
GRAM NOT GIVEN N THE
AFTERNOON.

No act Of the afternoon evoked
greater applause than that of the div
ing girls, who came heralded as the
Revere Beach, Mass, mernaids. There
were six In the troupe. although the
spectators were not made aware OF
this fact until the last moment
All day a mysterious woman Had
been proving around the grandstahd.
She was dressed in an old fashioned
costume. and a picturesque bonnet be
ing especially conspicuous and she
was consumed with curiosity, she
wanted to know why The balloons
went up and why the horses raced so
madly about the track why was
man. and what was the matter with
the lower part of the grandstand that
IL was locked up so tight
The spectators became greatly III
terested In her but when the h'e
beautiful diving girls made their APP
pearance they forgot her for the mo
n2ont-
Shspeiy Vsnuses.
The girls were very proficient. tlao
in tight fitting union suits they per
formed a variety OF dives from a
spring board into a huge tank or
water A more shapely quintet would
be hard to fnd, and in their gilsten-
ing black suits they made Il marvel
ously effective picture. Venue rising
from the waves had nothing on the
Revere Beach young ladies', TO speah
| In the vernacular. Perhaps II may oe
: said as truthfufly that the modern
mermaids had something on Venus
| They wore diving suits
Front, rear, side dives. the virginia
/ dip, somersaults and humping ulVes
we're nerfo1 med with beautiful pre-
/ hnn -
! made a sensational finish the old laoN'
| previously mentioned, made her APP
/ pearance Bonnet, gown. boots ana
NIL she plunged ~iRta~the- water anllf
/ fine shouts and applause of the crowd
/ She popped to the surface, swarm
| hriskIy to the side of the tank ana
got out. all dripping. She was ths
/ heroine OF the moment, the star OF
| the act and incidentally, 1t ~ SAID sae
! IL tho chaperone Of the quintet
| After the diving rls had dlsap-
peared into thei rtent the ttassan
! ppn All troupe Of Arabian acrobats
made their appearance. They gave a
xihrIwlnd exhibition. which was
!eauaI in the style these artists have
made famous
4 boxing bout between two HUSKY
Rdwarfs, the washer brothers. fofao@>'
/ ed. IT was iudierously funny All
sorts Of blows. punches, cks and
aupeals to the referee were made ahc
every time one or the other sneaker
p1inch In. when his opponent WASH
looking. the crowd shrieked with de
light.
Balloon Work Good.
In the meantime the crowd haf
been entertained with another bal
loon ascension and parachute drop
THIS artist using seven of the wonder
ftli umbrellas in making his descent
He landed a'rlv In the middle of tht
field after rising to sensational
height.
The human bomb. another Of Pro
/ fessor Hutchlsou's aerial acts, wa'
a great thriller The aeronaut wa:
carried to a dizzy height IN b .
bomb. The bomb exploded with .
loud report. releasing the parachute
3i1pou the bar OF which he sat calmly
gracefully and safely finding his wa
to the earth aga n.
Three tight wire artists. two wo.
men and a man. gave a very cleye'
exhfhition, q sort of japanese act
translated into English, They usef
japanese parasols and performed al
ter the manner Of the Asiatics, Il
though they plainly belonged TO thf
| Occident.
This ended the afternoon enter
itatn-nent the nnn~arrival of the banf
making II Impossible for the Russian
dancers to give their act, and the de-
iIav in building the globe for Cedora
land her assistants pcstpon ng thl
event until the evening when the faI
entertainment was given.