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“There are ten men in the troupe. The stage is set as the kitchen of a bakery, while the acrobats dress in white with baker’s caps. They enter by diving through the oven doors at the rear, and go into the “Risley” work, Jow Boganny being the foot worker and using a “Risley” mat concealed as a bag of flour. This style of acrobatics is varied by ground tumbling of the best made-in-Germany brand. […] Every minute there is a new startler, as when Boganny caught one of the little tumblers with one hand while he was in the middle of a somersault, and held him in mid-air. Another of the small members was thrown into a series of comedy falls by the leader without once taking his eyes away from a newspaper, and then did a laughable imitation of a violent acrobatic fit. […] The finish is a tremendous hit. It introduces a “wrestling dog,” a huge Dane, which wrestles with one of the boys, downs him and finally throws him into the wings.”
"No faster or more entertaining acrobatic novelty comes to mind."
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Variety, October 7 1908