The Republican journal., 1917-08-23
Hiph Class Vaudeville
For Maine State Fair.

The vaudeville attractions for the Maine
State fair at Lewiston, Sept. 3, 4, D, o,
were announced Saturday, and are con-
sidered among the finest of the kind that
can be secured for fairs.
In addition to Walter Bullock, the SEN
setional 17-year-old aviator, these attrac-
{ ons have been booked: The Four New
somes. OLIVIA Duo, Marvellous Melville,
I>yan & Wakely, Rosa Rentz Trio. These
vaudeville people, booked in New York,
have guaranteed new and lively pro-
gram.
The Newsomes are styled 'The Worlds
Greatest Spring Board Acrobats." There
are four in this act, and the feats they
promise for the Lewiston fair are new and
haven't been seen in this section of the
country.
| The musical and singing act of the
OLIVIA Duo is a high grade attraction.
These people understand staging an act
In the Out-of-doors.
! No fair would be complete without the
i "aerial gymnast," and while it would
: almost seem that acts of this kind had
exhausted their novelty, the performance
of Marvellous Melville will be something
sensational in the history of his art, if
the statements made by his manager are
true-and the management has placed a
forfeit in the contract that would inspire
the man to make good if he had any in
tentions of tagging. 1t is an act that he
has been training for during the summer,
and patrons of the fair will have the OPP
portunity to see it before those of other
fairs do So
/ Ryan & Wakely, comedy bar perform
ers who make good from the start, are
ST 70 thair
famous old act The Rosa Rentz, SEN
sational act in which there are one woman
and two men, would grace any fair pro-
gram.
These are the claims made by the
booking offices to the fair management
Their assertions may sound extravagant,
but the management has pinned them
down so securely in the terms of the con-
tract that it is not to be doubted that the
acts are all they allege.
The management of the fair has bond
ed Walter Bullock's management to this
program, and it includes two fiji ghts daily.
Walter Bullock of Minneapolis, Mimi,
the youngest aviator in the universe, fly
ing a 80 H. P. Curtiss exhibition airplane
Beachey type) Flights of IL minutes
each. Each flight to be made in full view
of all and not over the covered grand
stand. Each flight to start on time re-
CARELESS of wind or weather, unless a
hurricane. On grounds at least day be-
fore the opening flight. Here is part of a
letter sent the fair management: 'We
are affiliating with us only those aviators
whom we know are absolutely reliable.
Each aviators contract with us is cover
ed by bond. 1t will be Walter Bullock,
not substitute or an attempt to supply
a balloon instead There are hundreds
of fairs here in New England and eastern
United States whose directors want an
aviator for their feature attraction, but
who have decided against flying simply
because they had heard of some fair who
had engaged an aviator who failed to fly;
or if he did fly only gave very poor ex-
hibition; or had motor trouble; too windy;
pockets in the air and other excuses. Ex-
hibition has certainly been hurt by this
class of aviators That is why we want
you to have confidence in US. We bond
each and Mr.. Bullock, who is to appear
at your fair in the full amount of the
contract which is ample proof of our de-
sire to give to the fair directors the best -