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...We now come to the great and final Scene, giving entry to the unheard of number of 70 POLAR BEARS, who, making short work of the villain, pour down from every glittering, icy pinnacle and overrunning every point dash into the waters. Never before has so stupendous a gathering of the white coated denizens of the Arctic been seen together and the difficulty of obtaining so many of these, now rarely met with, animals has been incalculable. The Scene presented to the observer at this crisis is almost beyond description. Below - the 70 Polar Bears disport themselves in the water and above - an apparently illimitable extent of icebergs, rearing their transparent summits high into the air, is exposed to view; weird indeed and wonderful is the effect obtained as these great masses of ice move slowly with the drifting floes, lit by the rays of the Midnight Sun - as it were - into their very depths. Out from the dimness of the distant horizon is seen the first flicker of the AURORA BOREALIS which shooting its dazzling rays towards the whole ice-bound scene in an effulgence of golden and iridescent glory. All previous attempts at spectacular realism sink into insignificance beside this tremendous display, and there is little doubt that "The Artic" will be pronounced a triumph of the Hippodrome's endevours in this direction. THE LONDON HIPPODROME Which was first opened on January 15th, 1900, was - with the single exception of the day of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria's Funeral - closed for the first time on April 3rd, 1909, when it was found impossible longer to delay a complete scheme of re-decoration and re-furnishing... |
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