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CIRCUS SUPERSTITIONSCircuit folk are notarloiuly aupmtltlou*. and no wunflK. for their Uvm are one lor.* gamble with f«ic Mr. Philip Wlrth. the gorerning director of Wlrtb'a Clrcu*. which I* attracting crowd* to the Jubilee Oral. U not »uper»Utlou* about black cat* . or the number 13 A* a matter of fact, he think* 13 la rather lucky, but the artlau In the ehow hate even appearing aa the thirteenth turn on the programme, ana there liaa to be continual luggllng in Vhia direction. The Flying Laman* might be rinanl If thev were *uper»ttt:ou*. ior thla On* team of aerial tranere aruat* haa had exceptionally bad luck. Not Ions aco one member lt;« killed a* the reaujt of an occidint. and another one *** suddenly taken 111 a few minute* before a performance. It la many year* Blnce there wa* an accident with ''Itob# cat* a. all clrcua people call the Ilona and tUera. hut the precaution* are never related. and their eagre are double locked and the eteel bars tried every day. In addition to the Ion* ilrcua prlt;*rair.me with the trained bone*, the acrobai*. the beautiful Hauich dancer*, the Butterfly Clin*, the aerial trapc/e artist*, and the tight-rope walkers. Wirth'a have a menagerie wh.ch rival* many a **lc«lr*l garden In lniereat- There are lions. tigers. monkeys. and leopard*, and In one cage n number of pure white rabbita nibhle thdlf lettuce, while «-paraied hy a partition. a puma snaru over a piece of raw meat. A rare black panther *1*111* up and down, and f*rlnce. Ocnrre Petrraen'* four-vear-old lion thot ho- been brought up like a hnncfu’.lv for hi* maetrr among
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Adelaide Advertiser
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Tue, Jun 25, 1929
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