Tuesday, August 17, 2010

1948 RBBB (Set 1) #11


48 RBBB 1-11, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 8/17/2010 06:05:00 AM

9 comments:

D said...

And not just a one-hand stand! When was this trick last seen in the US?
Dick Flint
Baltimore

18 August, 2010 17:12
Anonymous said...

No doubt Unus was great,but there were others who did various combination tricks. The Great Barton, Jolly Junior, Martin Lamberti, Little John, and currently Li Liu are some that come to mind. Google Li Liu to see some excellent balancing tricks. I believe Li did ten rings at one time.

The layover position of Unus was unique.


Bob Good, an old handbalancer

19 August, 2010 16:02
Roger Smith said...

Another great was Lothar. I remember him practicing his one-finger stand in 1964, on the Beatty show. The act he developed was outstanding in his specialty. I almost said field.

Lothar, like many showfolks, had genius in other surprising moments. When Mr. and Mrs. Beatty had critical wiring problems in their Airstream, Lothar came over, checked the entire system, found all the trouble spots, and virtually re-wired the whole trailer. When Lothat finished and emerged from the trailer,he proudly showed me a fistfull of $20bills Mr. Beatty paid him.

19 August, 2010 23:06
Chic Silber said...

Lothar Geyer came over with the

Frielani bicycle troupe along with

Fritz, Fred, Greta Frisk, Evelyn

and another girl who left and was

replaced by the Digger Pugh girl

Jill who Lothar married

He probably had the most elegant

appearance of the 1 finger acts

as his tall slim figure and the

perfectly tailored wardrobe was

of great asset to his style

In retirement he bought a boat

& "Captain Lothar" ran fishing

charters out of Cortez

20 August, 2010 09:57
Chic Silber said...

Joe Galasso also did a nice job

On the other hand I have seen a

couple of performers who should

NEVER have done this act (but did)

20 August, 2010 10:01
Chic Silber said...

Airstreams had (maybe still do)

the "Univolt" 12 volt system

with a tremendous inverter that

supplied most of the power for

lighting & other special devices

They claimed it was a safer style

but the dual wiring often was a

problem to the unwashed

20 August, 2010 11:03
bob good said...

Lothar Geyer, was from Denmark and out of the Frelanni bike act. He bought the props from Joe Galasso who had the balancing act on Beatty before Lothar. Joe had been in the old Loyal Repensky Troup. These props were still being used by an act a few years back. I don't think Lothar did a ring spin in the act, however.

There were many good balancers years back. One other who did combo tricks and was good on either hand with one arms was Walter Wasil. He was from Austria and worked the Globetrotter circuit for Simone Finner.

Bob Good

20 August, 2010 11:15
Mike Naughton said...

Lothar's equipment was sold to Hashi Dubsky (Harry, Jr.) and then to Adrian Chapay-Poema.

20 August, 2010 11:16
Anonymous said...

My Mother Gerda Brandt (then became "Coates" after marriage) was with the Frielani bike act w/ Clyde Beatty for many years. She came over from east Germany around 1953-1954 to join the act. She passed away in 2006 and I now have a large box of hundreds of photos from her travels around the country (and abroad) w/ the group. I also have a video from when they were on The Mickey Mouse Club TV show doing their unicycle act. I found your blog while doing a "Google" search on the Frielani's.

~ Lara Coates-Anderson

09 May, 2011 16:31

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