From SALBERG@MAIN.MORRIS.ORG Thu Mar 30 07:20:29 GMT 1995
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From: SALBERG@main.morris.org (STEVE 'DOC' SALBERG)
Subject: Re: Magnus Nicholls
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I'd been reading these posts about this guy Magnus Nicholls.
I was wondering what the hell these guys were talking about!

But late last night as I was drifting off, something about Conway's
post about his demonology/satanism thing rang a little bell in the
back of my mind.  So today I dug into the IJA video archives and found
what was nagging at me.

There is a video compilation of some *very* old 8mm film reels that
were taken by various of the IJA's founding fathers and historical
greats.  In one of these, some of our great legends (sorry, I don't
know them all by name) were doing a sort of show in someone's back
yard.  They were doing imitations of *other* great jugglers.  Someone
was playing around with hoops and making fun of Bob Bramson by tossing
them up and not really doing anything with them at all.  Just a lot of
running around and rolling them off to the side and lot's of laughing.

One of these guys came out wearing a hat with devil horns stuck on it
and a forked tail tucked into his pants.  He balanced a candelabra and
a ball on his chin and on his foot, respectively.  Then he did a sort of
magical "booga-booga" pass with his hands and dropped the candelabra to
much uproarious laughter and people bowing down to him and kissing his
feet and such.  After that a woman came out and gave him a BIG TONGUE
KISS and as he swept her off her feet another guy came out with balls
stuck (glued?) all over his body (like Rastelli I assume) and chased
them both off shaking his fist in the air.

It's all the funnier because of the speed problems with the old 8mm film.
Everyone runs around at double-speed, making everything look like a 
Keystone Cops comedy.

I didn't get it the first time I saw it, but in light of this information
about Magnus' impending centennial, it now makes sense.

Steve S.
 .sig wondering if Liberace ever chased Nicholls with a candelabra...