Saturday, August 26, 2006

Bertram W. Mills Circus 1925-26 #3


"The Wirth Family of Australian Riders, especially imported by Bertram W. Mills."

Many of our Colonial visitors will have happy reccollectons of the Wirth Brothers Circus and those of our Patrons who have not had the good fortune to encounter this concern will be grateful to it for producing "The Wirth amily".
Philo, the comedian of the Act, is not a Wirth. He is of the St. Leons, also of Australia.
Stella Wirth, his wife, is a distinguished musician and has passed all the examinations at Monte St. Angelo College, Sydney, of which Institution she holds cap, gown and hood.

Posted by Buckles at 8/26/2006 11:29:00 PM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

At firet, I wondered if May Wirth was related to these people. I discovered that May was an orphan and began a performing career as a contortionist on Worth Bros. Circus in Australia. While on the show she was adopted by Maricles Worth Martin and her husband, John. Maricles taught May to be a bareback rider. In 1911 John Ringling hired May and she moved to the United States to appeear in Barnum & Bailey Circus. She remained with the Ringling organization until 1929.

27 August, 2006 16:23

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