Toledo and Price
“extreme contortionists. Toledo does one turn never seen before. If he keeps it up twice a day it is most probable that we won’t see him doing it much longer”
Nelson-Farnum Co.
a girl does 11 consecutive handsprings on a table. 30 years ago they used to do 60 “in as many seconds” without stop.
Five Mowatt’s
They work fast, which is “one of the most pleasing features of their performance” but tonight they worked so fast they could not catch things. “Dropped things all over the stage”.
The Three De Koes
They use head pads for balancing. “It is customary nowadays to wear these head pads for this style of acrobatics, but the same work, if not better, was done over forty years ago without their assistance”
W.S. Harvey
he juggles everything in a bedroom set and ends by balancing a “big double bed on his chin”
Alcide Capitaine
Charmion
“queen of sensational aerialists”. She “throws out personal souvenirs as usual” (she undresses on the trapeze)
Dalton Brothers
Darros Brothers
head balancing on the trapeze