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8 min. A skeleton steel globe in which Dr. C.V. Clarke and Miss Bertha Clarke perform many interesting evolutions on bicycles, whirling hither and thither in the same directions or in opposite directions one above another and altogether an interesting feature. Aside from the closing stunt which is that of Dr. Clarke mounted on a motorcycle making lightning-like revolutions through the cage, looping-the-loop again and again, through the immense applause of the entire audience. In fact, the act made a tremendous hit, throwing Carlotta and all the other “death-defyers” in the shade. This act will draw immensely for the balance of the week. It is certainly a great sensation and a winner for that sort of a circus act. The Globe of Death is the most exciting thing of the kind ever seen here. The man really takes his life in his hands every time he does the act, and the audience understands this fact only too plainly.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 30 April 1906 – 4 February 1907