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When the Army & Navy took the Circus ("Human Projectile") Zacchinis, her uncle and her brother, Victoria Zacchini, 19, stepped into the breech, flew out of the muzzle of the family's man-shooting cannon, equaled the 200-ft. family record...
...mistake, accepts a contract for the Big Show which includes his doubling in a high-wire leap and Ann joining a snake act. Thereafter the story centres on the Big Show at Madison Square Garden, spotlights the thinly disguised big-time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from...
Divorced. Mrs. Gertrude Reigel Zacchini, 27; by Bruno Zacchini, 35, brother of and trigger man for Human Cannonballs Hugo & Mario Zacchini in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Tampa, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, constant nagging which caused him to lose 20 lb. Said he: "I don't feel like working and my brain does not work. . . . If I do not think clearly, I am apt to kill my brothers...
...anything they particularly wanted done? Yes. said the boys. Just make sure Babe Ruth heard about them. Following Saturday, Passaic's small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home...
...circus buffs the Flying Codonas really, artistically wind up the show, though Human Projectile Hugo Zacchini still hurtles clear across the Garden from the mouth of an inclined cannon to make the official finale. Zacchini is good, and this year his cannon is mounted on a silver truck. But he is a find, not an artist, not a circus tradition. His trajectories will not be charted after he is gone...