Kluting’s Animals
The act was fifteen minutes long.
Kluting works with pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs onstage. Three white cats do platform work and French poodles waltz across the stage. The cats also finish with some high jumping.
Wallace’s Cockatoos
The act was eighteen minutes long.
Wallace performs with his trained cockatoos. The featured “White Eagle” cockatoo is well-trained and performs without incident.
Berzac’s “Riding Academy”
The act was twenty-one minutes long on the full stage.
In his new comedy act, Cliff Berzac used a “mechanic”, which is a pole that holds a horse-rider into place as they ride around the ring in a circus. Berzac acts as the “riding instructor” and uses this mechanic for comedy. He attaches supposedly inexperienced riders to the mechanic where an “unridable mule” proceeds to bounce them around. Cliff also rides a horse around barebacked.
Howard’s Musical Ponies and Comedy Dogs
A stand is placed down centre
and a terrier, mounted on a pony, jumps
upon it at each circle of the ring, leaping
back upon the mount as it passes beneath
him. Then two ponies and dogs are
worked at the same. Here comes a laugh
at the pups’ quivering anxiety to catch
their mounts in time, but when, one by
one, the ponies and dogs are worked up to
five, the laughter and applause are immense.
Yuill and Boyd
The act is a male and female act with two dogs, one “pretty bull” and one ugly “mut”. The couple talks and the dogs do tricks.
During the finale, the man does a “stereotyped travesty ballet dance.”
The act was eighteen minutes long.
Howard’s Ponies
Lucille Mulhall & Ranch Boys
Little Hip
“the smallest elephant in the world”