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JAK and GEORGE

Under the Big Top at Olympia

THE policy of this

column is live and let live. We criticise nobody.

Nevertheless, we cannot help thinking that Mr Cyril B. Mills (Harrow and Cambridge) and Mr Bernard N. Mills (Ditto and Ditto) could have been a little quicker on the uptake in this matter of Big Top talent for their circus at Olympia.

Cyril, we understand, has spent the last 30 years looking for such oddities 09 trapeze artists In Swedish ditches Lnd performing dogs in the Danube. TALL AND NATTY

Bernard, the tall and natly one, stands revealed as the original importer of Knap- strupper horse to Warwick- road and points west,

Born impresarios of sawdust and spangles, Kifelong en- couragers of clowns and contor- tlonists, snappers-up of sealions and simians.

And yet, when I went out of my way to Introduce them last month to the ninth wander of the worldh

original high- wire half -

sheep half - human, can- pleto with swivel.

ling сус balis, hedge- hog hair, and the gall of u ruptured duck, the Mills bro-

the

Natural talent, it seems, is not enough

when it comes to

thers remained aloof.

being a clown

public are invited to leap in the Tovarisz Prisedodit Koulturno found himself elected to a six- Well, not exactly aloof. What fond belief that they, too, can Porosvetitelnoi Komist in the months' sojourn In I men is they said freaks went become dare-devil, bare-back Russian Army.

out of circus-fashion years ago riders of the circus. They call and why didn't Jak find an it the Riding Machine. honest living elsewhero,

Nor were the staff any more LOST: · TROUSERS

a Crimcan months ago

his cars, and custard Dies Bill alop in his face for three shows u day zeven months of the year: " Above all. Ceco is stil a very lind nun, free with his trade generous In his

That accident in Scotland 15 secrets,

of has stopped some chcouragement

to frolics, newcomers of Ceco's mure riotous

busluces

would-be the clowning

"With a face like yours, vou

teddel.” he told Jak,

jul some 3,000 miles away.

Alternatively, Jal: might try

By the time he got there he'd but it did not stop him stepping six months in prison in the served his sentence In half-a- up in his baggy pants and hi

rize Crimta, or

28 bools to present a having: his leg dozen Prisons, ench smelller broken by joep driven by an than the last.

bouquet to the Queen the other ld go far and I wish you elephant near Norwich, or an

day. in Monsterous? Coco said he 1 eirmus hair still stands on -GEORGE WHITING argument with a juto lorry Dundes,

managed pretty wall inlling flat end, water still squirts out of

-(Londen Express Services. en his face in cireus sawdust

enthusiastic, Jock Morrison, the hefty Sol who looks after the whole Mills nenagerie, said the Jale tried it one evening last best eculd offer my colleague nunth, and very effectively. I would be the position of deputy thought. True, he mused the

The Arst 70 years were the they started the Kaiser': ssistant groom to Happy, the horse, hit an elderly gentleman harder, suid Coco, cheerfully war. Then he became an out- giraffe-bring your own bran in the eye, and lost his trousers, hopping around amont his rider in the Tsar's Siberian

but such swift improvisations,elght languages.

corporal's

Regiment, won stripes and the Cross of SL

A friendly suggestion that are surely the fe-blood of the Jak should join the giamorous circus. Anyway, the kids loved How did he start? Well, said George, was wounded in the Miss Josephine Beresini in BIL

the funniest, friendliest elown legs, and Emped into a starving sack en a bicycle balanced on a

in the world, he had been born Petrograd in time to see the high wire up in the roof was Even the clowns, we found, on the Battle, but we could say local Cossacks chopping up rejected out of hard ID ung are apt to be rather conserva- his slop-in-the-face career their officers with rabres. dignified, unpractical, and well tive when It comes to recruit really began when his dad had nigh impertinent.

ment of new and obviously given him away to an Italian natural talent, All except the circus at the age seven,

AN UNDERSTUDY? famous Coco, that is.

Apart from being broke, and hobbling around on crutches, and convalescing from scalds after a trick-samovar net had gone wrong, said Coco, he did all right.

Coco was most encouraging, WITH THE TSAR Mr Rudi Lenz, here from and cald he saw no reason why Holland to amaze us with his Jak should not make an excel-

buffoon. or Jester, Learn to be an aerobat, they

And he did even better when chimpanzeca, said he might find tent clown,

could produce a raid, but all they did was to call the late Bertram Mils, visiting my protege a spot as au occa- providing he sion:1

years essential requirements him Coco and give him the job Berlin to buy horses 31 understudy to Maxi. Itw

home with Coco Beppl, Sabu, Toby or Jimmy, such as a wife, six children, 13 of rocking the flon-tamer's baby ngo, came

a caravan at to sleep. But even this came to nothing: grandchildren, The chimpanzees objected.

and a face like Hammersmith,

A wintry week on fish and Bud Flanagan,

So Coco decamped, was chips in Marchtler safely caught, handed back, Micky also objected, and this

and negotiated, be- Another way to enter the learned to live on trapeze wires acquired really was the last straw, cause Micky is the plump, business, said Cuco, would be to and thick ears. At 11, he took language

to order something patient, and well-padded white start life as Nickolai Follakov, the rap when some exuberant else, and has been clowning here horse it whom members of the as he did, and to get a job as a pals set a burn on fire and ever since.

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science by Peter

These may have been more

ccarce. So the ants began foreg-

now save much of the time taken over hos- succulent, but they were also pital X-rays. It puts the developed pictures back in farther afield than usual in the doctor's hands within 90 seconds.

Fairley

The jelly base

and then trouble started. BEFOR

be

sink

DEFORE an office block can be built in Lon- The box is the invention of Mr William Solzer, a radiographer Squabbles broke out,

don, tho Foll must at Bromley Hospital.

It can be wheeled to any part of the hospital where X-rays ported back to their colonies, building would just

Lone, wounded foragers re- "stabilised," Otherwise the are taken. The films are developed on the spot.

Colony marched on colony until into the clay or gravel. My Salzer explained: "It it began 15 months ago the health was a mass of ants

This is usually done by pour- Is a very simple idea-n develop when fire swept the heath, fighting to the death.

above ment of the black bag used by killing millons of ants

ing in huge quantities of cement, photographers when they change ground and damaging

their.

All this was watched by Mr or silicates. or occasionally by Tiesto, a Bim er plates.

Lalo vpetation A Michael Broin, a Nature Con- temporarity freezing the area, "But means that you can left.

servancy scientist. The result, at the process X-ray Alm

The most appetising repart he reports, is a much-thinned operating theatre door in just to an ant is a seed, followed ant population-more sulled to But the the impoverished food supply. over a minute.

by a leaf-cating insvet, firo rid the heath of both. So Such is the low of nature, the surviving ants were forced to change their diet,

Heath battle

N extraordinary battle

A has

on Fursebrook Heath, Dore sct, by ANTS.

Now a new method has been invented. It involves pouring in

Grout. This is akin to water in o chemical solution called AM-0

Ptexture" Bo will penetralo everywhere that water docs. There should be a moral in After seeping in, it suddenly They turned, instead, on the this.tale. The expanding world turns to a stiff jelly. By varying and population also faces an acuto the mixture, it can be made to

Can we leam "aet" anything from Q centipedes, Plus, of course, a food shortage. 1JW tasty bugs that dropped from the ants, before colony minutes to hours later. from the sky for a rest, ¦ marches on colony?

—(London Express Heruter.)

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