Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07
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was always ready to go $3.50 rather
than to have any trouble. Everything
was always settled satisfactorily be-
fore he left the town. Charlie was al
ways a high salaried man, yet it was
always said of him that he would go
deeper into his pocket to help the
needy than any Salaried man running
a show, and no business man in the
country, either in the circus business
or out of it, has ever left better
name than Charlie Thompson.
The following sad ending of an old
performer who has practically spent
all his life in the business was sent
me from Worcester last week, and
while | never travelled with Cine,
have known of him in the business
for many years.
Stranded in Worcester for almost a
week, penniless and with little hope
of obtaining work, f'rof. Alejo Cine,
81 years old, native of Chile, South
America, former star of P. T. Barnum,
and at one time noted vaudeville Jug
gler, came to station one yesterday
afternoon and asked to be booked as
vagrant
Prof. Cine will appear before Judge
Samuel Utley, in central district court
today, and unless he shows he can
obtain work in Worcester, he will be
sent to the state farm.
Motion pictures and new stunts by
younger men now in vaudeville are
blamed for Prof Gine's present posi-
ton in life. He has been perform
er in circuses and theaters since he
was seven years old, when he was
sold by his father to an actor doing
tumbling stunts on the South Ameri-
can stage. Prof. Cine also now real
ICES that he has made mistake by
not saving when he was getting real
money for his work.
Prof. Cine claims to have the most
remarkable memory of any man alive.
He claims that he can remember back
to the day when he was six months
old He claims he was able to swim
when two years old, without having
had any previous instruction, and says
he owes this to the fact that he was
born in a canoe. He said his father
was a sailor, and that he was born
while his mother was being taken from
the ship to land in a canoe.
His first experience as swimmer
came at the age Of two years. He
said his mother would tie him to the
- +l,o bOyco while bo worked in
the yard. He always played at the end
of the long rope, until one day he man
aged to get loose.
In the yard was large tub Of rain
water, and Professor Cine claims he
climbed into the tub and as his mother
didn't notice him for more than half
an hour, and that he is alive today,
proves that he must have been able to
swim at that period Of his life.
Professor Cine travelled with the
Chilean tumbler until he was about
fifteen years old, when he came to
New York. He then got position as
tumbler with Barnum's circus. From
tumbling he went to Juggling and then
to bareback riding, He received $25 a
day for two performances for his work,
and he spent the money as fast as he
earned it.
But younger blood entered the pro-
fession, and Prof. Cine then drifted
into the side show business, doing
contortion act. For this work he re-
ceived SIS week and board and room
for II performances day.
He cut away from the circus after a
time, and drifted into the small-time
vaudeville, doing a juggling act, and
slowly but surely was forced from this
by motion pictures and acts better
than his.