'Ture was another large, xpprecintive, and enthusiastic audience xt' the fourth perfornunce of the Amateur Circus on Wednesdsy night (14th). The long and varied programme went off b fter than ever, and it was the expressed opinion of many present that with "few more nights' practice the performers would outrival not a few profes sional travelling circuses which visit the Far East. The children were present in strong in fact it was a children's night, and happy face and exclamations of unbounded delight will long be remembered. with pleasure by those who provided the entertainment.
The Circus is over. No more for w—fora while at least—the peculiar joys of wit essing a peristrephic performance,"
pantomimic polo-itie performance," or "brilliant: gymnastic and aceubitic" display. Funambulosity, pyramidal pos-tares, perilous feats, and mystifying mar. yds have alike gone to the limbo of things achieved. We have only a_ pleasant memory to support us through the circus loss days to come. On Saturday night Shanghai said farewell to all this, and ssid it with that enthusiastic acclamation which showed fully how much it admired and appreciated what was set before it. The performance of that night was no whit below the best which has gone before. From the graceful quadrille to that astonishing polo everything was excellent. The riders were as clever, the acrobats as agile, the trained ponies xs intelligent, the clowns as funny, as the most exacting could wish. The audience filled the seats a: d overflowed into the eutraneeways, hughed, applauded, and laughed again with the keenest relish for everything it saw and heard. Where so much hi been said of the circus, where cads item is already borre down under a weight of praise, it were supererogation ty speak of it in detail. Rother, those matters special to a last performance should be dealt with. Towards the close of the evening the Chairman of the Race Club Stewards, Mr. Brodie A. Clarke, made a neat Lttle speech in which he thanked all those who hud supported the various performances by their pre-since. Liz" went on to speak of the Iahour involved in the arrangement of such a show, and referred specially to Mr. F. J. Maitlandand Mr. J. B. Cameron, and the splen e work they had given to its perfectia mally there was loud and insistent £ © Mait and Signor Frankini—to give him his nom-de-citque—came wut and bowed his acknow cigments.
And so, with laghrer, cheering—eren wing—and with the greatest of good li, the Amateur Circus of 1901 became a thing of the past.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.