The Valdares, who open in the Theatre Royal on Monday next, the 30th inst., came to this country with a great repu tation as trick cyclists, and according to press notices, they appear to be fully entitled to be styled '* Champious of Champions." Their tour through Austra lasia has been a phenomenal success, the press and public boing loud in praise of their great act. The Melbourne Argus, writing of their opening performance in Ails' ralia, says: "All of the long line of trick cyclists who have visited Melbourne have brought out new ideas in the manner of manipulating the bicycle, and in their first appearance at the Bijou Theatre the Valdares proved themselves in originality, agility, and grace to be fully the peers of the best who have gone before. Mr James Vald.ire and Miss Bessie Valdare are each examples of the perfect type of male and female athlete— young, plucky, and well-formed — and in the course of their entertainment they make it manifest that they are both acrobats and contortionists of considerable skill. The Valdares spun on the stage together, each on the pedal of the same bicycle. Then each took the bicycle and showed a number of revolutions, marvellously executed, and all new. Mr Valdare crawled in and out of the frame of the running bicycle apparently with as much ease as if it had been firmly held in a vice. He swung himself in front of the wheel, behind the seat, and beneath the top tube with the speed anil accuracy that an average circus tumbler displays on the ground. There seemed to be nothing left to do with a bicycle, but Miss Valdare took up the running and showed the audience that it was mistaken. Positions that her companion had missed were assumed by the lady with equal pace and ease, and the turn ended with both riders once more on the s' .ne machine. In this position they performed daring and skil ful acrobatic feats that are generally done in the safety of a carpeted stage. As a re call the Valdares reappeared, each riding one wheel of the same bicycle, and they were brought before the curtain three times more before the audience were satisfied.
