TRICKS & TIPS

 

Gag lines through the ages... ·

• I learned to juggle by mail... I guess I lost a few lessons.

• I'm so nervous I even keep coffee awake!

• I may look pretty bad, but this is the first drop I've had tonight!

• Sometimes I does, sometimes I doesn't and sometimes I does it a dozen times before I does it!

• Just washed these clubs and I can't do a thing with them!

• I must have cut my juggler vein when I was shaving today!

• And this one will prove that talent and genius aren't confined to the rich and famous!

• When the audience applauds, look up and say, "You don't really have to applaud, I'm not going to quit until I get through."

• When the audience doesn't applaud, say, "I know you're out there because I can hear you breathing."

A Clean Act

 

Make a solution of high grade soap dissolved in warm water with a small quantity of pure gum arabic and about a third by volume of glycerine. The actual amounts will be found by trial, as it depends on the kind of soap used.

 

This mixture is well mixed and left to stand for a while, well corked in a bottle. The tube used for blowing the bubbles is made of cardboard, about one-inch in diameter at the largest end, and is waxed. The ends are bent over as in the illustration.

 

Bubbles blown with this solution can be handled easily by a juggler wearing woolen gloves. The secret is that all sticks, etc., used for bouncing, rolling, and balancing are covered with woolen material. Some very good effects can be worked out with this novelty.

(Bulletin, February 1947)