Arizona republican., 1913-08-26
NEW
 IN AERIAL ACTS
Human Butterfly, Great French Spectacle No velty Will Be Seen Here During Visit of Coming Circus.

The Human Butterfly" act, sensa- tional aerial spectacle which has amazed Europe, will be seen with Ring ling Brothers circus in this city soon. It is the most beautiful and at the same time the most daring of high wire performances.
 The three Ty-BeIl sisters, the orig
 nators 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 an audience in Paris. The act was en- gagged by one of the foreign agents of the circus at a salary exceeding any amount ever paid for another circus act. It is absolutely a departure from stereotyped aerialistics. It must not be confounded with common iron jaw performances, which are often eXecut- ed in air to give them the appearance of danger, but which in reality are vary 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 teeth. By means of invisible machin- cry above them, they are made to re- Volve, dart, fly and circle through space with the grace and ease of sea gulls. Throughout the act battery of calciums and electric spot lights flood them in fantastic colors with ka- leidoscopic effect
 The act is entrancing because of it's sublime splendor it's perfect grace and ethereal beauty. The great danger and daring of the performance which are quite evident to spectators, give it also a breathIess and thrilling interest. with q dash of suspense thrown in. The girls are clothed in flowing silk as deli cate a s cobwebs They have long wings of fine spun glass. There is an unearthly charm to the spectacle that makes it seem more like dream than reality.
 It is a thriller of the most pronounced kind. There is no gallows-like rigging about it to give it the ghastIy sugges- ton of the bolide-leap- the gap -somer- sault effects of the past It is a happy rningling of the thrilling. the beautiful and the spectacular that appeals to the senses of the most delicate as well as the fancy of the morbid minded
 There are many other sensational acts on the list, and the unusually bril- liant performance will begin with the great spectacle Joan or Are" employ ing 1900 persons. GOO horses. a ballet of 300 dancing girls large chorus and trainlOad of specially built scenery and stage properties No circus in the past has ever attempted such a gigantic project as this one. This spectacle alone, which is part of the regular performance and entails no extra charge of admission. cost the Ringing Brothers half a million dollars II will be seen in Phoenix on Monday, Sep tember F. just as it was presented Ii the Coliseum in Chicago where the show began the season in April
 Other exceptional acts will be offered by the Saxon Trio of the worlds strongest men. the Balkani troupe of sensational riders the JanOwsl1y fam fly of novelty acrobats the Lorbeer company of eccentric jugglers. the Por- tia quartette of women contortionists, 1 and the sensational Marylands. hand 1 balancing specialists