Monday, March 25, 2013

2013 Cole Bros. Circus #18



TO BE CONTINUED

10 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Another marionette routine

Dick Flint said...

Impressive looking show (and act seen here) with bright costumes and new acts. Looks like many upgrades and I look forward to seeing John Pugh's Cole Bros for my 53rd straight year!
Thanks Jim Cole for the photo preview!
Jim and Vincent are giving us a nice review of the new season! Thanks to both.
And I just got Ernie Albrecht's Spectacle magazine with its several reviews and a delightful story about Jessica Hentoff and her daughter, the new human cannonball on Ringling/red.
Great start on a day with 5 inches of new snow on the ground here!
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Jimmy Cole said...

Chic, The trick they are doing could not be done otherwise. It would however look better if the mechanic lines were black.

Chic Silber said...


I believe I've seen 3 high Jimmy

without mechanic lines & yes black

cables would show less but still be

visible in most situations (wrong)

If you can't do a routine of extreme

danger without mechanical support

then you shouldn't be doing it

These procedures started in the iron

block nation's acts that came in the

late 50s & early 60s & other folks

soon followed the pattern

Fine for a school show like Sailors

Roger Smith said...

CHIC's right. I just asked if that suspense killing white line was a mechanic, and here are two of them. Not only do they stand out, they are attached to white belts, as if to make a point of showing the gimmick. We can really kick-start the heat about the old rule: "Either do the trick or don't do it--but leave the mechanic in the barn."

Buckles said...

When Trolle was bringing over those Slavic acts I remember one that entailed a man walking up an inclined wire while balancing a perch pole on his forehead with a lady on top.
Needless to say she wore a mechanic which I was thankful for.

Chic Silber said...


Reminds me of Dobritch on our Monte

Carlo Show who climbed a vertical

pole with a forehead perchpole with

his wife on a bicycle in a wheel at

the top also with a mechanic but in

both of those cases I agree

Chic Silber said...


Actually the mechanic was attached

to the prop & not to the lady

Roger Smith said...

Note the lass in the middle. Half her ass hanging out is a wardrobe malfunction--is that what we call it?

Chic Silber said...


Maybe that's an attempt Roger to try

to distract your focus from those

glaring mechanics & belts