Gentleman juggler on unicycle ...on ice!
Here's another juggler from the Maxwells' home movie footage (that the Trixie footage yesterday came from).
It's notable for me because I've never seen a gentleman juggler on unicycle before, let alone on ice. Unfortunately I don't know who he is.
https://youtube.com/v/9qRDKsAQBlo
I thought it might be Serge Flash, because he worked with the Ice Capades and specialized in ball & mouthstick (and the trick at 1:15 looks very like one of his). Also, he apparently juggled on unicycle: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19370220&id=3cIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mrYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1196,4737800&hl=en (thanks to Jason Horst at piksl.com for this nugget of info!)
But, it looks too 'modern' for Serge Flash, and I've not heard of him doing hats, hat & cane, or combination tricks. Also the dates don't match - the Maxwells were at the Ice Capades in the 1950s - too late for Serge Flash.
The only other name that I've managed to dig up is Boy Foy, but I can find almost nothing about him, other than Scott Cain's article http://ezine.juggle.org/2015/03/11/juggling-on-skates/ which says Boy Foy juggled on unicycle on ice. The dates seem okay. Also the photo from that article shows him wearing a top hat, which seems promising...
Over to you, historians - who is he?
(My fave: ball balanced on the mouthstick while wheel-walking 1:17 - freak!)
by bad1dobby, 2015-08-03 13:33:34