Trapeze Page #4

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The clock inside you always knows what

time it is. Keep it tickin' alongside mine.

We'll never get a triple until we

keep the same time. Let's try it again.

Have the confidence that I'll be there

to take you. Here's what you're doin'.

You got your legs here. Here's your body.

That's the position you come in to me in.

When I take you by the legs, fine, but you

get that whip in the end and I lose you.

Now, if you come in to me like this, we get

that beautiful smooth rideaway. Got it?

The double cutaway to the stick,

that's a different story entirely.

Good, good, good!

You're beginning to look like a flier.

- How about the triple?

- I'll tell you when you're ready.

- Monsieur Bouglione!

- You're in, Mike. I buy this act!

- Monsieur?

- Yes?

Everybody wants me to do more

in the act, so I must have a new costume.

- Do you like it?

- Uh-huh.

I'm glad you like it. My partners

will need a little advance to pay for it.

I have to sell tickets, not buy costumes.

Costumes sell tickets, don't they?

Costumes like this?

That we'll never know.

The bill is already full. Your act is out.

- We're out? But we had an agreement.

- Perhaps you'd like to show it to me?

Ingrato mascalzone!

Non te la caverai, sai?

Lo ti faccio causa, capito? Disgraziato!

Non sei degno di avere un'artista

come me. Vigliacco, brutto mascalzone!

Don't shout. Ask yourself

which is the better act.

Trapeze is always good business.

Chikki, where are the flames? I was

promised I would have fire on that hoop.

- It will take time.

- "Time"?

Is opening night next year?

I want flames now.

Last year it was jumping through knives.

Now you want fire.

You must go back to Mike.

I will kill Chikki for you.

Mr. Bouglione, you will have the act I

promised. If I say flames, it will be flames.

Even if I was crazy enough,

the horse is not.

That's your affair.

I am offered flames, I expect flames.

Rosa,

you are not watching the horse.

Now, gently.

- Late time.

- I got off late?

Too late off the board.

- How was the kip?

- You're kipping too early.

I had a bad grip on the bar.

- Monsieur Bouglione?

- Eh? What? Yes?

I apologize, monsieur.

You are right. It is a skilful act.

Don't put your head down.

But is skill enough?

Can the people appreciate it?

- Kip still wrong?

- You're too late.

People like spangles,

you know, monsieur?

- They are good for the imagination.

- You think about this act?

- You already have an act.

- Not at the Cirque d'Hiver.

What about your partners?

Don't you mind losing them?

Let them show me the agreement,

monsieur.

No. Mike Ribble always has a two act.

A two act is what he wants. Nothing else.

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