As to the Willys, the act looks great with just the five, and between stroblited hoop juggling, club juggling, passing etc., plus a few cute comedy bits, it's still the fine act that I saw featured with the Ed Wynn show on Broadway when they first came to this country five years ago." Though this Bulletin will reach you too late to convey the Christmas greetings, we want to thank all of you for the swell cards and wish you all a healthy New Year. A Juggler in the Stix by Doug Couden Arcadia, Louisiana: Jack Taylor sends over copies of "The Stage", "The World's Fair", and "The Performer", English theatrical sheets. Just received school adv. cards from printer so if you want one, or a copy of above, let us know. Bill Ruesskamp mails old copy of Phoenix showing knife throwing technique. Purchased Earl Gotberg's "You, too, can be a Ventriloquist" and it's A-1. Eric Johnson sends pics and green felt- who'll send a pool table? Roger types a few lines (that's hotter news than if he bit a dog) on preview Bulletin letterhead. Out soon and you'll like it. Hugh Shepley sends more sketches of tricks. Also sends Bert reviews of acts. "Spud" Roberts sends miniature business card and springs an idea, "I believe that jugglers don't have to search for new material but just use the old stuff, it being new to the present generation." There's a lot in that, plenty of tricks from the old days can be revived to advantage. However, this writer also believes that juggling has lagged behind in the use of modern materials in props and applying modern inventions to juggling. Also there is too much copying of the other fellow's routines. To stimulate invention read, "Heed that Hunch" in Dec. American Mag. In the same issue we find, "Want a Job At a Million a Year?
Jack Parker and Valentine & Evelyn making the train trip from East to West preparatory to USOing. This is a good way of making puppets move because it's very simple and almost soundless. Because it rotates away from your eyes as you blow on it you can use it to make a simple animation, although creating an animation which is convincing is surprisingly difficult. You can use it at the end of a harmonograph arm. The connecting rods are joined together with sellotape hinges, the crank bearing is done by cutting the end of the straw obliquely. You can make them with a valve but they are a lot trickier. If the hands are held fairly closely together you get a semblance of unusual juggling. You blow in the bendy straw, slide the other one to get 'music'. You inflate the polythene bag by blowing down the straw, but only when the weighted straw is swinging upwards.
Now you can make several on one straw, different types, different directions etc. Attach one to a hat with a bendy straw to blow through. Although the film costs about 50 pence for one sheet, you can make about ten kaleidoscopes from one piece of A4. This can be made out of almost anything, eg a sweet wrapper or aluminium foil . She takes to juggling very much, so things really work out swell. Watch out for light fittings. You have to make it just positively buoyant by cutting off bits of wire or drinking-straw. It's not only more interesting but it is also easier to make because you don't need the wherewithall to cut & bend wire. Blue-tack is more expensive to buy than wire but cheaper to use in terms of skills. Add more plates. Raise cannon balls. I think it's probably possible to modify it to work with more than two pens. You can attach them to anything light, they will still work if badly made. It is very forgiving & will work no matter how badly made. The December issue will be slightly late too,, but after the Christmas rush maybe we can settle down and get back on time again.
If the cup is made from thin plastic you can cut it with your finger & thumbnail, for thicker plastic you will need a pair of scissors. So that when you hold the pen you can spin the pointer round & round which causes the spinner to turn. Good if you put super-bright LEDs on it, put the batteries (2 AAA) at the front of the bottle on the side furthest from the pen. It would make quite a good starting point for a robot design of some kind. If you make a small indentation in the middle with a ballpoint pen you can balance it on the pen point and make it spin by blowing at it gently. The pen lid stops the cleat sliding off the pen. The other end of the pointer is attached to a paperclip which is bent round the barrel of a pen. Make the cleat by bending a paperclip, adjust the string so that the bottle has an angle of attack of 30 degrees as you spin it round. The string is pulled by means of a cardboard ring. It is made of a drinking straw with diamond-shaped cutouts to enable it to hinge & spring back; it is operated by a string passing through it attached to the finger tip.
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