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REVIEWS "Juggler Cartoons." by Karl-Heinz Ziethen. 1988. West Berlin. Rausch & Luft Publishers. 65 pages. ISBN 3-9801140-7-4. (No price listed) Karl-Heinz Ziethen, author of "4,000 Years of Juggling," "Juggling Through the Ages," and "Juggling - The Art and Its Artists," has struck again. His latest work, "Jongleur (Juggler) Cartoons," is a delightful collection of 79 of the best funnies from his personal collection.
With
punch lines in both German and English, fun is "thrown" at
Rastelli, Jaeger, Moschen, W.C. Fields, Kremo, Ignatov and Brunn, to
name a few. That's not to mention well-known jugglers Napoleon and
Fidel Castro!
Any
juggler will have a historically humorous time with this 65-page
collection of up-in-the-air laughs. "Juggler Cartoons" is an
entertaining must for the serious collector in need of a chuckle. -
Tripp Holmgrain
"Dr.
Dropo's Juggling Buffoonery. .. By Bruce Fife. 1988. Colorado
Springs. Java Publishing. $7.95.
IJA
member Bruce Fife recently revised his book of "Dr. Dropo's Comic
Juggling Routines" to "Dr. Dropo's Juggling Buffoonery."
The
new 104-page book is divided into sections on juggling, cigar boxes and
balancing. Each section includes how-to instruction and a series of
actual routines to try.
Three
or four of the routines are brand new and a few others have been altered
from the original version, according to the author. Fife said that he
widened the audience for the book because now you can learn juggling,
balancing and cigar box manipulation right from the book. The old
version didn't have the instruction.
Sixteen
of the 25 routines in the book are on juggling. There are some very
silly routines here. How do these titles sound?
"Liver
Juice and Other Delights, " "You, Too, Can Be A Stupid
Juggler," "Plungers and Dirty Dishes," "Chicken
Balancing," and "Sticky Boxes." The
book is great for giving ideas for putting together your own routines.
The juggling, balancing and cigar box moves involved are at a very basic
level and therefore attainable by most people.
However,
many of the routines would take considerable acting or clowning
experience to really work well in front of an audience. Fife does have
some staging notes in the routines, but leaves most out because of the
difficulty of describing how they are used in performance. -
Tom Sparough '"New
Circus." Reg Bolton. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London. 1987.
ISBN 0- 903319373.
"It's happening all over the world, but the world doesn't know," writes Reg Bolton. It's New Circus, and Bolton's book of the same name focuses on this world movement and its place in schools, clubs and communities. |