Buckner

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F.S. Time 16. 2 assistants. The biggest front of the season. With a stage full of imposing apparatus, Buckner comes out and stalls about mysteriously. Then he goes up an inclined ladder and rides down. This thrilling event did not bring up a single hand. Then he does a little work picking up a handkerchief while balancing himself on the wheel. The applause was not deafening. Then he rides down a few steps, without creating a riot. Finally he mounts a tower and after stalling for about five minutes he bumps down on a unicycle a series of steps set about three feet apart, down to the stage level. He closes with a little weak comedy consisting of jumping over six prostrate stagehands on a unicycle. The act is no headliner and does not justify any exceptional billing. Buckner may have been a sensation at the New York Hippodrome (as he asserts), but he far from one at the Cleveland Hippodrome.

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