I have nothing - only my hands and brains. I've exhausted all my own ideas. Six top variety theatres close, some temporarily, others indefinitely. With operating costs soaring and attendance dropping, theatres cannot show a profit. Rock and roll shows have lost their lure, strip-tease shows have skidded down, and pop singers now have a pull only when they have a record hit.
Theatre managers complain that nearly all the top liners go into seaside shows for the summer.
Today I have not to announce a new juggler, but looking through my scrapbook I think one or the other of you is interesting in the old time. And so I am thinking we will have a little chat perhaps about some of the old heavyweight jugglers. He toured Germany and Russia and I read that he tossed the shower with six five- pound cannon balls. In the above mentioned programme you can read also a certain Carl Schaeffer was in the troupe. He drove with an old Roman cart with two horses on the stage.