| Show MRS VASCOS VASCO'S FAMILY They Furnish Two Strong Acts on Vaudeville S Bill It ma may be t telling a stage sect vt s when it it Is Iii staled that Mile 1 Alexandra and nd M. M Botie the lie two at the who tb do the tho thrilling i and ladder act are mother and son anti and respectively wife an and son of oC Va co the mad musician musician- who is the I ea this week It is seldom that three members of oC one ono family furnish furnish fur fur- fur fur- nish two strong acts on a vaudeville bill lilli hut I this trio is tl nio around the lie world and mul making good I with their two acts which arE ace goodenough good bood goodenough enough h for Cor or the he top and bottom of or an any bill lill When I was as a youngster anti and he ho Is If only 22 2 now Vasco and his wife did a a. flying trapeze stunt that was Vat a LL winner but hut while showing shoving In South Africa Vasco happened to miss tho the net one night and anti his his' career a aa as tisa asa a high flyer was terminated It was then thon that Bertie Bertle was rUn rung In while Vasco took to tho the musical clown act Ln La the same samo circus The apparent ease case with which the woman vonian handles her 1 lb IGO-lb ton son with one arm aim while hanging head down own is explained by Va Vasco co In the tho following naive o manner mannor Yu see sal said he lie last tast night nigh 1 my v has ned carried Bertie around ever over since he liv was a a. ball baby As Ai he lie grew brew she hc did ld not notice It an and now she Iho handles him Just as easily as the she would a a. baby bally It IL stands to reason that thaL this is hi bo so because dues docs not the theol theold theold ol old fable able tell toll one cue how u a man started to carry carly a calf calC and carried It dally daily until at la last t he lie found that he was can vying carrying a n grown full ox Mrs s. Vas Vasco o or 01 Mile l as HI she Is called callari on the tito bill has had avery a l avery very cn ad adventurous career If she Is careless with her makeup and find one looks closely with the thc opera glasses a terrible scar Icar can call be JC traced on her left arm Tho rho story of this tills s car scat cen ten cis ci's around a circus tent tent- In South Africa when whon slit she was appearing III in the big FUlls shows One night the lion Mon tamer was killed and at the next performance Mile Alexandre volunteered volunteered volun volun- to enter the den despite the thc 18 of or the lie management and at nt- nt She thought that she could I ISO go SO into Inlo the lie lion lIun taming laming business with i What followed after she entered the cage beg beggared ared description to quote a hackneyed expression Tho The lion ollO the woman by the shoulder while the audience horror stricken stampeded fh The Tho attendants and arid Vasco succeeded in beating off orr the frenzied anImal with hot irons hons an and forks Corks an and I the the woman isas was as rescued more dead I I than alive and horribly mangled That I I ended her ambition to be a lion Uon tamer |
