European Report

 

Dick Franco, appearing in Great Yarmouth, England, mailed in a report of acts he saw while touring Europe.

 

Britain

Gildova - Eastbourne

Jean Claude - Scarborough

Richard del Oro - Isle of Wright

Nino Fredirii - Blackpool

 

The Continent

Sorin Munteneau - Switzerland(Circus Knie)

Rudy Cardenas - Paris (Lido)

Eva Vida - Paris (Casino de Paris)

Stuart Haber - Paris (streets)

Jack Bremelov - Zurichl Switzerland

Jack Romarie - Nantes, France

 

Franco also discovered an electronic, coin operated juggling game in England called "Gypsy Juggler," and manufactured by Meadows Games Co. in Sunnydale, Calif. The object is to. keep a figure.under its eggs. "If an egg goes on the head it bounces straight up and down," Franco said. "...an egg to the hands bounces high and toward the opposite side of the screen. If you drop an egg it breaks and a duck hatches out and walks away."

 

Franco said he's interested in buying one of his own. "The skill of the game is timing and spacing very much

like juggling and it is a real challenge to master," he concluded.

 

Lindsay Leslie wrote to tell about Hermann Sagemuller's search for the grave of Paul Cinquevalli in London last year.  In Brighton for the first European juggling convention, Sagemuller passed out copied press clippings explaining some of Cinquevalli's most unusual tricks. He found out there that Cinquavelli who died in obscurity in 1918 at,age 59, was buried in the West Norwood Cemetery in South London.

 

Leslie continued the story, "As the cemetery is quite large, Hermann asked at the office to see the RegisterBook for July 1918. Some detective work revealed Cinquevalli was registered under his original name, Paul Braun. From this they found the grave site on a map and the name "Cinquavelli" on the headstone. While he took photgraphs a groundsman passed and said, 'Paul Cinquavelli used to juggle cannon balls.' Hermann was quite surprised, for the man was born about the time of Cinquavelli's death. This proved that he was a great juggler indeed. Hermann asked the groundsman if he could tidy up the grave and the man helped him do this."

 

For posterity, the location of the cemetery is on Norwood Road, London, S.E.27. Cinquevalli's grave is 32152, Square 82.