Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Franziska Nock and Suzanne Chipperfield Exotics--Circus Nock








I can't speak to Europe, but it is still the strangest thing to see two people in the cage, no matter how common it is there. Here it isn't, and it just seems odd. But two in the ring with exotic's is really odd.

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...

Many years ago we had the Samels

work as a duo in the mesh arena

with (I think) mixed smaller cats

I wasn't impressed with them but

Ursula did such a magnificent

act with those tremendous bears

that I didn't mind her assistant

there (can't remember his name)

Wade G. Burck said...

Chic,
The Samels you reference were Yvonne's parents.
You were impressed with Ursula and the Polar Bears because of the number and size of the animals, and the fact that it was a women. The "assumption" is that the man was needed to move the heavy props. Manfred Horn stayed in the back ground in a nondescript uniform, only on a very rare occasion "working" one of the bears. It he did have to correct or help with something it was done in an unassuming way. Almost all of Alfred Courts act's had two people in them. You will note I quoted assumption above. Again the assumption was that another person was needed to move the props. Yet there have been cases of his act's worked later by others, without the aid of someone to move props. It is a subject that has been discussed here extensively in the past, with differing thoughts and opinions as to "why" two people are necessary.
Wade