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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FERBUARY 24TH, 1914.

THE OLD ENGLISH CIRCUS.

FEATS OF THE BARE-BACK EQUESTRILKNE.

ASHLEY AND HIS SUCCESSO ËS,

To celebrate the glories of the “ Magic Ring after Mr. Kenneth * Grahamo a "Dream Days" is almost as presumptu- fous is to sing of the fall of Trov alter "the lind, or to describe a football-match after Tom Brown's School-days.?? A more august name is also associated with the theme, though it can hardly be, må n- Hained that Bleary's horse-riding in "' Hard Times "la as accurately described as Mr. Crummies repertory theatre 12 Nevertheless, Mr. Nicholas Nickleby." Bienry's exhortation," Make the betht of uth, not the wurtht," is one which admirers of the circus have ofter to repeat for there is something about the ring which rouses cortain critics'to füry:

A little while ago a writer of this mind ' declared that the revival of the pircus in London meant a retrogression of public taste. He was right, but the retrogres- alon was longer than perhaps he imagined. The appeal of the circus is to the under- lying jungle instincts of mankind, It takes us back to the state of things symbolised by Kipling's tale of Mowgli, when the beasts were not looked upon as a lower order of créatures, but as un-

portant neighbours to be worshipped, feared and, if possible, befriended. It mayaven stir mysterious feelings of *. forgotten consanguinity; for, though it is | quite right that man should

Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and biger die, there are still moments when he is sonsible of friendship for the spe and admiration for the tiger. It is this sentiment of our primitive brotherhood with the animals Esat, which is revived when the clown lends his cap to the elephant, when the horse picks up the ringmaster's handkerchief, or when the lion plays see-saw with his timer.

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FATHER OF THE ENGLIBIL CIRCUS. The real father of the English circus was Philip Astley, who was born in 1742; celebrities whose proper sphero would have been the amphitheatre. In 1652 certain William Stokes published at Oxford a book called The Vaulting. Master," which is one of the earliest manuals of instruction in the art of vaulting over or upon the backs of horses; and in the same century Jacob Hall, the rope dancer, who was said by somu to have won the earliest favours of Nell Gwynne, acquired a considerable reputation. The most interesting of 14, Meron, 6, 7 Astley's precursors,

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The beginnings of “ Astley's ́ ́were. humble enough, Philip Astley was a retired cavalryman of noble appearance, who find in his time captured standards on the battlefield. He began his exhibi- tions of tangy riding in a field near Lambeth, and took round the hat himself.

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Such was the origin of "Astley's Circus," sung by Bon Gaultier, and made famous in the pages of Thackeray and Dickens-the circus. where. Herman Merivale tells us that he saw the Battle of Waterloo with the English and French FOR SALE.

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tion of British "spleen" and brutality been regarded as a profanation of ber which they found in the distorted faces, art by a classical étuyèro de panneau. the dislocated limbs, and the resounding Things are very different to day. The blows and buffete of the English clowns.ped has gone completely, and the rider In their antics, which had been innocently claimg credit for the more difficult task

of planting her feet upon the actual surface of the horse's back. It is cleverer, but it is not so pretty to watch, and it greatly restricts the movements of the performer. Bare-back riding is now & matter of equilibrium rather than grace. We recognize at once, the genius of the performer who throws somersaults from her horse a back; but we doubt whether we should have had quite the same feeling for the fairy-like equestriennes of our youth if they had risked their dignity in somersaults We suspect that a good many of the public are of the same opinion,

designed to amuse small children, de Gón- court detected visions of Bedlam and of Nowgato, of the operating theatre, of the prison, and of the mortuary." Looked at from this gloomy point of view, the Hanlon-Lees and other eccentric troupes of acrobats became a great literary success and found enthusiastic commentators in such writers as de Banville and Huys mans. We doubt if their successora to-day could achieve this effect. The dispirited tumbling of the modern French clowns creates no horror save that of boredom. To see them is to wonder why an old-fashioned English clown, such a

They cannot forget Miss one as only two or three years ago was Josephine Sleazy in her celebrated, grace- to be seen at the Yarmouth circüs, is never ful, Equestrian Tyrolean, Flower Act,' engaged in London, where feel sure and, dazzled as they are by acrobatics, the children, would adors i

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bo connected with the name of Androwow, however, has always on fer On this point Ducrow, the great pantomimist who first will be the lady riders." appeared in 1914, the year of Astley's we refuse to yield an inch to the accusa- death it was Ducrow who tersely laid tion of atavism. It is the equestrienno down the grand esthetic law of equestrian alone who elevates the circus to the drama in the famous saying of which the authentic version is Cut the dialect and get to the 'osses. This strange being, who combined the gifts of a mimo, a rider, and a rope-walker, came in the course of events to give his spectacies upon the lufty scene of Drury Lane, where he produced St. George and the Dragot, The Enchanted Courser, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and other equestrian picces.

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athetic plane; for she presents, as M. Jules Lemaitre puts it, the union of the two most beautiful creatures on earth. a woman and a horse. Connoisseurs of the ring are divided into two schools. those who give the palm to the haute école and those who prefer the bareback rider. We must be allowed to range ourselves with the latter. After all, except in the rare case where she has trained her own horse, the haute école rider has little to do but to sit properly in the saddle and look handsome Meibae) indeed, tells the The modern circus, as it has been intro tale of a little girl who discovered her duced to us by Mr. Charles Cochran, is vocation for the haute deale simply based on Continental rather than on through putting on her uncle's tall hat English traditions. These make in many and observing how well it became her specialization. There is a differencements of the bareback equestricnue. between the wild beast tamers of today Originally it was not really upon the back who lead large herds of lions and tigers of her steed that she stood and posed, but into the arena, and the humble individual upon the "pad" or panneau, & kind of who, in an English provincial circus of tiny platform which took the place of the the forties, exchanged the post of trombone saddle. The" pad-rider of the old school player for that of "lion king" on the was a proper ballerina, who had been ground that he might endanger his life through her classes in the dancing school if he went on playing a wind instrument as well as her exercises in the ring She with a weak Jung

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appear on à single borse with a male dialogues with the ringmester, because partner and to reproduce with him the the French audience did not understand difficult groups of a mas de deur. Even them in English and were not amused by to dive through a paper hoop or to leap them when translated. What appealed

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