Thursday, October 02, 2008

Cole Bros. Program 1947 #7


Scan10786, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"The Great Hubert Castle
Internationally celebrated wizard of the tight wire
A preeminent feature of the Cole Brothers 1947 Circus."

Posted by Buckles at 10/02/2008 06:25:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Note this shot for the '47 program, two years after WW II. Much has been made herein of Hubert's quick-response capacity for using his fists. He taught me some very interesting and useful tactics about hand-to-hand combat, all of them effective. I asked him, "Where the hell did you learn all this?" He said, "Well, a lot of different places," and left it at that. I figured he was being Old Circus, and keeping many things to himself. But one day I went over to help ready the tuba for his beloved Elephant Brass Band, and he got into giving me another fist-fight lesson. I remarked that this was quite something to learn, and rather quietly he said, "Roger, during World War II, we taught kids to kill each other with their bare hands."

02 October, 2008 15:42

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