Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-01
JUGGLING.
An Expert in the Art Describes Some
of His Tricks.

OF His Tricks.
M. Paul Cinquevali, the famous Jug
gler, said recently to a reporter for
The Pail Mall Gazette: ''Unless / am
developing new trick seldom practic-
ed now. l am juggler. l invent my
own business. That is one of my diff
ficulties. New tricks are copied.
When 1 find that 1 have an imltator 1
invent something else. For instance,
thought came to me fnis morning, a
trick with cigar and Il cigar-holder.
[ throw the cigar up and catch it in
every position in the tube of the holder,
shall practice it month, perhaps for
an hour or two day. never give a
trick without being so sure of it that
[ would bet large sum against failure.
Simple Juggling, such as one does with
balls, one could be blindfol ded. so GER
tain has the hand become. The hand
follows the eye, but the hand is the
more important of the two. Suppose l
have a half a dozen knives in the
air, / propel one so as to give it
half turn, another turn, third turn
and half, fourth two turns, calcula-
ting the revolution of each one as it
falls through the air. Suppose one of
them is falling horizontally, instead of
vertically, then one gets out of the
way and lets it fall on the ground In
teaching beginner one sets him to
work with one ball and one hand-the
left. 1t is like teaching a child to read.
He begins with the A B G, then forms
a word. So it is with the juggler's
playthings. The left hand must be as
facile and as sure as the right.
If you let your pupil begin
with the right hand it doubles
the difficulty for the left hand. l make
it a rule always to use for my tricks
the ordinary articles of everyday life.
1t is more interesting to the public
than elaborate apparatus. They can
90 home and try for themselves. l
take a candle and a candlestick, or two
candles and two candlesticks this is
one of M. Cinquevalli's most famous
tricks or put an umbrella and stick
through number of aerial evolutions.
/ even use a washington. 1t is often
CALLING to the performer to know that
the public do not understand the niceties
and often the extreme difficulties of a
trick. To give them lesson one some
times purposely breaks OOwn once or
twice Just at the critical moment.
Then the third time the applause is
tremendous. AS q matter of fact, one
is certain to slip now and then. 1t is q
very different thing performing in q
room by daylight and before the fiery
glare of footlights. Perhaps my most
difficult feat is the one am doing every
night just now with the knife and fork
and raw potato. Simplicity again, you
see. With the knife cut the potato in
two after keeping it up for some time,
and then catch the two halves, one
on the knife the other on the fork.
That, now, was suggested to me one
night at a supper where l was a guest.
Give us something the host said;
you can juggle with anything A
knife and fork were on my plate, and
cooked potato. / was successful.
The juggler is the gentleman of the
profession. still join in the acrobatic
entertainment with my brothers; but it
is a severe strain to hold a man of
eleven stone on ones hand, and the
tumbling and hard knocks put ones
nerves, eve, and hand out of order for
the Juggling. which requires such ex-
actitude and precision. can unite the
two if l have an interval between the
performance. 1t is the professional S
most difficult task to find novelties. 1t
is so with all of us in the show bust
ness. What is there left? ask. Your
insatiate public has had trained ileas
and trained flies. There is nothing
left. London-l don't know. l have
nothing sensational; they come to see
me- The Russians, yes; Germans. no.
They want TO be amused. | have once
or twice had narrow squeaks. A friend
bet me a champagne supper that l
would not do a trapeze performance
from balloon. l took him. 1t was
at Copenhagen. The balloon was a
giant, my bar being few yards from
the basket. l was dressed as sailor.
The wind was blowing out to sea,
but we started. l chung to the bar. and
did 4 few turns in the air, then scram-
bled up and sat on the bar; as we as
cended to a great height | clambered
into the car. The VIC drifted out and
into the sea. We floated about for an
hour until we were rescued. | got q
cold. hut won my champagne supper.
That was nothing. was engaged to
take an ariel flight at an afternoon en-
tertainment. 1t had rained in the
night took my flight, landed on the
opposite bar. and fell eighty feet. The
rope was sodden. and had given way.
l broke my wrist. and some of my chest
bones For eight months | was in the
hospital with my left arm in sling.
1 practiced with my right. Juggling,
then, is better than ariel flights. An
acrobat too, must always be in good
hoalth He has q headache He is no