Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-18
DARING FEATS OF
STRAIGHTFORWARD
Remarkable Tricks Employed By
Jugglers to Amuse the Up-to- Date
T~heatre-GOer.

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This promises to be a season Of Jug
gIers, and vaudeville managers are
outdoing each other in the selection OF
experts in the art who will afford en-
~tertainment for their audiences, and,
incidentally, increase the box receipts
of the playhouses where his particular /
amusement is made a speciality
Conjuring, Juggling and feats OF
strength are UGH ancient means ana
tho of amusement and entertain
ment, that one cannot help wondering
why it is they have not failed ia public
attraction centuries ago. Possibly 1t IS
because that, although so old to many
of US, they are still new to the MAJOR
ity, and because, also, ancient IDEAS
are always being dressed in new gar
ments; but whatever the reason, the
fact remains that we are as delighted
to-day with straightforward tricks,
Juggling performances, and displays OF
physical endurance as were our ances-
tors of a couple of thousand years ago.
But nothing mediocre in this line can
survive to-day, and he who is to pro-
vide a twenty minutes entertainment
that shall not be productive of a sense
of depression ere it has well begun
must indeed be clever, and prepared to
show US something that cannot be. done
CquoAAS well ~ S-AJ 49, POASO-
has undertaken this means of making
a living.
A first water juggler's sense Of equil-
| ibrium is only equalled by his physical
| strength. He can juggle With any
thing from, one might almost say, a
| needle to a railway engine, and for
| that matter, with both Of them at once,
I Notwithstanding the disparity between
their weights.
WONDERFUL FEATS.
A clever juggling trick is performed
with two cigars and a cigar holder.
The holder is sent whirling through
space to fail, as it should, between the
lips of the juggler, but ere it has fin
ished it's fight a cigar is in its wake,
and as naturally as if placed there,
drops into the tub Of the cigar holder.
In a mSment it is snatched out to make
way for the other cigar. It sounds
easy, but try it. Also try juggling with
a, cigar holder, a cigar and a lighted
vesta. Having caught the holder in
the lips, catch the cigar in the holder,
and then the match on the end of the
cigar, which it must light.
Feats requiring the combination Of
not a little strength, particularly in
the teeth and mouth, and a fine sense
of equilibrium, are those most admired.
One would think that there was
nothing new to be done with the bicy-
Gle on the stage but some of the feats
performed by u~p-to-date artists are so
| remarkable that they refute this idea
Immediately. One is to take the ma
chine apart and play with the two
wheels and the frame in a light-heart-
ed sort of manner throwing them
about as though they were but three
paper balls.
Another with the bicycle is far more
difficult, and calls for considerable ex-
ertion and some clever balancing. 1t
is to lift bicycle and rider with one
hand high above the head, and hold
| them there While the cyclist INDUCES
5 in a ride on nothing. In doing this the
[ juggler grasps the top bar of the ma
chine at the spot essential to securing
perfect equilibrium, and bicycle and
imam are hoisted safely enough-about
as awkward a fourteen stone weight as
= it is possible to imagine.
. From the bicycle the up-to-date ar
fist usually turns to cannon balls
: sound, solid shot of glittering steel
. handling them as though they were
only pills in weight. Still, they turf
the scale at % pounds. What he can.
not do with a cannon ball in the way
Of juggling is not worth doing. In hi,
hands the ball appears to become
t thing mbued with life. He sends i
e all over his bod in every possible di
rection with a seeming light touch o
his hand. He runs it round his necl
so speedily that it looks live a silve
collar.
A DANGEROUS TRICK
o Then, as a grand finale, he treats on
h to a feat that mack of real danger