Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — A CIRCUS IN MIDAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A CIRCUS IN MIDAIR.

Aerial Kings and Queens in Thrilling Feats of Daring. In this branch of arenic art the Veally star performers posses the host thrillirig interest for everybody-' and are pre-eminently strong with the I lagenbeck-Wal-lace Shows which exfwbit heie Saturday, July 30. They present an unparalleled number of the greatest and most venturesome an 1 original male and female midair trapese. horizoltal bar, floating ring, invisible wire and funambulistic experts in the strongest and most startling and

act' are absolutely new, novel and hazardous and the feats and exploits, all accomplished with such precision and certainty of execution, that, thought of fear in tfiite beholder is dispelled and he can but marvel and admire. At dizzy heights they soar like unwinged birds through space, darting and diving from sway-

stupendous flights, dives, evolutions, catches and combinations. The list includes the Five Galarmos, the Seven LaMonts, the Eight Delnos, the Van Oilman Troupe and the Rutherfords. Many of them have appeared in every capital in every country on the continent of Europe and are now completing a tour of the world, embracing one season in this country with the Hagen-beck-Wallace Shows. These companies comprises men with the forms of an Adonis and the aerial skill of Mercury, and the women each a flying Venus would be hut a mild description. Their

ing perches; passing and exchanging on far-swinging trapeze : throwing and catdhang otic another: pirouetting and somersaulting and filling the air with flying forms until the audience becomes spellbound. They are not alone in the field of aerial exploit with the Hagenbeck- ■ Wallace Shows, for there are 4

scores of other companies and individuals who participate in the midair circus. The famous Carmen Troupe, whose feats on an apparently invisible wire stretched high beneath fihe dome of the tent, would be considered marvelous, even if performed on the ground. No equilibrrstic lormance of any time has equaled this sensationalism. There are troupes of aerial artists, high horizentai bar performers and -ensatiohal diving somersaulters who are acknowledged champions of their class, all of whom help to conjure up a mind picture of the miraculous performances in the air at these great Never before has such a large and astonishing aggregation or aerialists been gathered together under canvas with any show.