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Two-time comet watcher

Headline: "Blau juggles while comet flys in 1910 and 1986'" This old juggler turned 83 in October, and I hope all jugglers will be as lucky and happy as I have been between sightings.

In 1910 an undersized eight-year-old kid juggler known as Fumble Fingers Blau looked up and saw a flying object known as Halley's comet, which I was told had made many passes without a drop. At that age I had been taught a couple of magic tricks by my parents and on my own was trying to imitate the jugglers who were nearly always included on the vaudeville bills of those days. On the very day that most people in Houston were expecting the comet to crash and eliminate everybody, my father had tickets for a vaudeville show, so off we go. We forgot about the comet and when the show was over, lo and behold, the world was still there.

It could have been that day that I first saw a juggler doing the coin roll on parasol. I liked that trick but I was about 12 before I could afford a parasol and a coin. The trick went in the act and it's still there. Gonna keep at it until I get it right!

Speaking of ancient things, my son Dean and I resurrected our juggling duo, "The AIdo Brothers (1946-1950) for a couple of gigs recently then put it back in mothballs.

I'm still at it solo. I made my 12th annual return to Galveston County park in May to work the fair!

Bob Blau - Pearland, Tex.

Entertainers

Michael Roy Baldridge - July 8-13, Jefferson City, TN; Aug. 2-9, Carribean cruise.

Francis Brunn - Lido, Paris.

Catch It Quick Jugglers - Craft Faires, July 5-6, Arnold, CA; 12-13, Clear Creek; Aug. 2-3, Truckee; 9-10, Squaw Valley; 16-17, Incline Village, NV; 23-24, Tahoe City, CA; 30-31, Arnold.

Dynamotion Jugglers - Big Apple Circus. June 19-22, White Plains, NY; 26-29, Atlantic City, NJ; July 22-27, Richmond, V A; July 29-Aug. 3, Schenectady, NY; Aug. 5-10, Shelburne, VT; 12-17, Hanover, NH; 19-24, Pittsfield, MA; 26-31, West Point, NY.

Wally Eastwood - Hanneford Circus.

Natalie Enterline - Lido, Paris.

Flying Karamazov Brothers - July 18-20, Vancouver, B.C., Folk Festival; Aug. 11-13, Edinburgh, Scotland, Theatre Festival; Sept. 2-21, Washington, D.C., Arena Stage; Oct. 6, Santa Rosa, Calif.; 8, Stanford U., Palo Alto; 9, Cal. State, Pasadena; 10, Cal. State, Fullerton; II, UC-San Diego, La Jolla; 12, Lo Linda; 14, S. Plains Col., Levelland, Tex.; 16, Dallas; 17-18, Grand Opera House, Galveston.

Joel Heidtman - Through Sept. 14, Wyandot Lake amusement park, Columbus, OH.

Edward Jackman - Aug. 24, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO; 26, U. of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR; Sept. 16, Arizona Western Col., Yuma; 24, Texas Tech, Lubbock; 27, Southwestern U., Georgetown, TX; 28, St. Mary's U., San Antonio; 30, Texas Lutheran Col., Sequin.

Dale Jones - June 13-15, St. Louis County Fair; July 4-6, VP Fair, St. Louis; Aug. 2-3, Decatur, IL, Celebration; 7-17, Illinois State Fair, Springfield; 18-24, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia; Sept. 5-13, Tennessee Valley Fair, Knoxville; Sept. 26-Oct. 26, Texas State Fair, Dallas. Call 314/227-1049 for ether bookings.

Jacques Marais - Brian Boswell's Circus, South Africa.

Rejean St. Jules - Circus Circus, Las Vegas.

Robert York - July 7. Bushwackers, Manhatten. Kan.; .9-10, Deja Vu, COlumbia, Mo.; 11-12, Ceder Shakes Saloon, Springfield, Mo.; August 12-17, Zanies, Nashville, Tenn.; 19-23, Birmingham Comedy Club, Ala.; 26-30, Funnys, Wichita, Kan.; Sept. 2-6, Tulsa Comedy Club; 9-13, The Comic Strip, El Paso; 15-21, Jolly's, Amarillo; 23-28, Comedy Workshop, Austin.