Jacqueline Brafford with the new indoor Circus Fantasy in West Virginia... Christian Chrof with the Shrine Circus in Portland...Jeff Tharpe with the Diablo Brothers Circus in Texas... Carson & Barnes Circus featured five rings of jugglers, Oscar Marcias; Julio, Jorge, Carmen & Chicu Rosales; Miriam Moreno; Romel, Sebastian, Rosa, Alex & Junior Padilla; and Freddy & Tonio Rosales... Nine-year-old Justino Zoppe was listed as "the act I most enjoyed" in a review of the Tarzan Zerbini gold unit...

 

* Mark Nizer and his wife, Scott Neisser, have moved from New York to lA, and celebrated with a June 5-July 17 world performing cruise on a boat going to Russia, Poland, Denmark, London, Norway, and Finland among others.

 

* Chuck Sheperd's occasional col­umn for the Universal Press Syndicate called "News of the Weird" carried this item recently: "A 27-year-old man was taken to a Lincoln, Neb., hospital in critical condition in December after police found him nude and unconscious under a balcony with four oranges and a partially-eaten apple lying underneath him. Police speculated he fell trying to juggle the oranges while eating the apple." This item was sent to Juggler's World by Judith & Gary Parker the same day the dentist told the editor about a patient who, during New Year's Eve revelry, broke a tooth with a pool ball he was juggling when it took a bad bounce off the ceiling. Who says juggling is so healthy?

 

* Atlanta's Alexis Lee spent the spring at Holland Village in Japan on her second job at that resort park. Her act includes a shackle and sack escape, torch swinging, manipulation of dinner plates, and a routine with an apple, onion, rubber ball and audience volunteer in which she never eats the apple!

 

* The Passing Zone, 1989 Teams Champions Owen Morse and Jon Wee, performed some new tricks during a six­week engagement at Expo 90 in Osaka, Japan, in April and May. In one routine, each man rides a six-foot unicycle as they exchange four basketballs. It's a shower pattern, with one man bouncing the balls to the other while the partner passes them straight across. They're working on five, a pattern in which both bounce balls across the void to the other just as two hands would do in a five ball force bounce. Wee said they hope to have some more new tricks for the convention in LA this summer - including passing 10 clubs and vertical torch passing in their rola bola shoulder stand!