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[KANGAROO] Palace Theatre of Varieties. Boxing Kangaroo. Circa 1902. Oversize pictorial broadside for the variety show featuring a range of trained animals, including Leoni Clarke with “170 cats, rats, mice, monkeys, canaries and cockatoos,” as well as Mr. Dick Landerman with his Boxing Kangaroo, pictured in a halftone cut on the bill. Other performances include the plate spinner Blitz (not the original), eccentric comedians, and dancers. 36 x 11 ¼”. Loss at upper left, old closed tears, marginal chips, paper browned, laid down. Landerman and the ‘Roo were set to box three rounds on stage, “under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.” In performance, ropes were strung across the width of the stage creating a makeshift ring. It took Landerman a reported two years to train the animal to box.