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Ridgway, Cole & Ridgway's Palace Circus. Touring Australasia. Nelson Saturday & Monday,...
Date: 1912
From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]
By: New Zealand Times Company Ltd; Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978; Cabot, Beatrice Eliza, 1894-1981
Reference: Eph-E-CABOT-Circus-1912-01
Description: "The following all-star artists appear nightly: Miss Sylvia Stanley, the daring and dashing Mexican trick rider; Mdlle Xenia, the lady who shakes dice with Death and skirts the borderland of eternity at every performance; The Ridgway brothers Chas and Will, the world's best head and hand balancers, gymnasts and acrobats, in their great specialty "Fun in a Gymnasium"; Kodama, the Japanese equilibrist and foot juggler, "justly styled the world's best"; "Denver Dan", America's greatest lasso expert; Lieut. Cole, introducing his famous sketches, "A Day in Dogville" and "Mirth in Monkeyland"; Doyle & Dinny, comedy acrobats and gymnasts; Will Clear, bareback rider, vaulter and leaper; Pixie, the smallest and most perfectly trained horse on earth". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed by the N.Z. Times Co. Ltd, theatrical printers, Wellington - 2947 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Relief print on poster 996 x 377 mm (cropped)