Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-28
HOWE'S. CIRCUS
MAKES BIG HIT
WITH THOUSANDS
Clean and Up-to-Date, with
Thrilling Acts and Daring
Deeds AlOft and
Below

HoWeS Great LONDON Show played
to two big audiences Monday in Au-
gusta to the perfect satisfaction of
everyone. The acts were all good,
many of them new and some of them
equal to the best ever shown in a cir
Gus. The clowns were as funny as
could be and nothing went beyond
good laughter making horseplay The
usually tedious wait before the main
show was enlivened by excellent music
by really good band and the foolish
ness of a tramp clown and a gorge
ously made up lady" who torrnented
scores of the people entering, both
men and women, to the delight Of the
audience.
The employees were quiet and cour-
teous, knew their business and at
tended strictly to it. The show Is
we'll managed and handled. The
horses were all beauties and the
equipment bright and In good con-
dition. In fact everything about
Howe's Great London Show made a
hit with the people.
The program for this circus called
for &c displays. They were given
Nothing was omitted from the grand
tournament and display of garlands
to the funny closing act by the
clowns and trick donkeys, which sent
everybody home in good humor with
a smile on their faces.
Equestrian acts were a notable fea-
ture of the entertainment There were
riding stunts which could not fell to
please. This from the first in which
the display OF garlands figured, down
through the fancy riding of Miss
Meers, Miss Lowande and the Con-
ners sisters, the bareback somersault
riding by Cecil Lowande and VIM. Mel
rose, Dockerill's famous high school
horses (wenderful animals, both for
beauty and intelligence)
Some seemingly Impossible feats
were performed on bicycles and mono
cycles. There was also an act by a
Japanese girl juggler and balancer
who, While poised on a large rolling
sphere, juggled tiny gilded balls and
balanced at all angles a parasol, on the
top of which the smaller spheres we're
kept rolling.
The dancing horses received a large
share in the applause, These animals
were able to illustrate about everything
in the modern repertoire of terpslehorean
endeavor and the splendid spirit and ae-
curate time displayed by these intelli-
gent animals was truly remarkable.
The trained elephants with the show
were decidedly worth while.
There were the usual wild animals. The
trained elephants seemed as advanced
in their arts as any seen here previously
and went through all of their different
stunts without the suggestion of hitch
The flying ladder acts by the three
Vivian sisters pleased the crowd as much
as any of the stunts OF an aerebatie ma
ture. At times one almost expected to
see some of the pretty performers come
dashing earthward, for there were no
nets used as are generally brought into
play in similar performances with other
shows
KuileTvo brothers showed some feats
in head balancing and head walking
which could not probably be exeelled by
any attraction on the road.
The Jap troupe was one of the clever
est ever seen in this city ana won hand
after hand by its work. The three Vivian
sisters on the Aging ladders had An act
which can be classed as a real thriller.
You couldn't help watching it. even
though nervous, and all the time you
looked 1t was your expectation that the
three good looking, daring young womer
were going to come smashing down to
the earth below. for they used no net.
This last was true of each of the aerial
acts. Not a net was up for the show.
The Roman ring work by the Aerial Bar
bours, Reigler Bros. and the Aerial
Youngs was fine.
Howe's Great London Show will be re.
membered in this city and it's next visit
eagerly awaited.