Trapeze Page #4

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Remember the trampoline. Same idea.

- The way you're catching on...

- Tino! What's she doing up there?

She's all right, Mike.

Watch her. She's good.

Get her down.

Don't get excited, Mike.

I just happened to run into her.

There's no room for more than two

up there. Now get her down.

Take it easy, Mike.

The girl looks good, eh?

- Great, but not in my act.

- Let her do a simple trick.

- Just drop the bar. What harm?

- Plenty. She'll ruin the act. Tino...

I give you my word,

the act will be improved.

Improved? By a dame? I'm tryin'

to give you a pure trapeze act...

I know your act, its purity, its perfection.

I also know what the public wants.

- Money, money, always the money!

- You can eat for nothing?

- What's Bouglione getting excited about?

- Don't argue over me.

- Oh, no. I'll just go down...

- Tino, I hate quarrels. Stay, please.

It's unique in history, the greatest act

since Lotard invented trapeze

in this circus 100 years ago. And

you talk about box office and spangles.

I buy the acts here, Mike.

I throw out what I don't like.

We haven't got time.

We'd lose the triple opening night!

I buy the acts here.

That's all I want. No arguments.

You think they'll pay more

to see her than to see a triple?

I fill my circus in my way

or I empty it in my way.

In my circus there's room

for only my way.

Either the three of you are up there

opening night, or you're not there at all.

I don't understand.

You're in the act. You're part of the act.

You wanna be in the act?

Come on over to me.

- Fly?!

- Just a simple straight jump.

I'll call your time from the board

and call you off the bar.

It's too soon. I can't.

Don't worry. He'll catch you.

He's got great hands.

Here.

Use the bar, it'll give you

a better swing. Come on.

Now don't worry.

Hup!

Higher. Get higher. All of it.

Come on.

Hep!

I did it! You caught me!

Let's try it again.

This time get it up higher. All of it.

Mike, I wanna talk to you. Mike, you gotta

listen to me. We were just horsing around.

- How did she get up there?

- I didn't mean to give Bouglione ideas.

She had the ideas. Now we've lost

the triple opening night.

Mike, you don't know her.

She's had a rough life.

Listen, you idiot. She gave me the

treatment before she got around to you.

Why do you think

I always wanted a two act?

Because one flies and one catches,

and no one comes between.

Nobody's gonna come between.

- Is he still angry?

- Are you worried?

I was thinking of his hands.

They give you so much confidence.

Looks like you've had

enough of that already.

Now you are angry too. Why?

Why didn't you say

you already spoke to Mike?

I? He must have misunderstood.

It was Bouglione who was talking.

Look.

I came over here to learn the triple.

And I'm gonna learn it.

- And you think I'd interfere with that?

- Mike thinks so.

We gotta think alike. Neither one of us

is good without the other.

I knew nothing about these things, or

I'd never have let Bouglione persuade me.

I'm frightened I will not be good for you.

I'm frightened I will hurt the act.

Goodbye, Tino.

Lola...

Tomorrow I should leave. My only chance

for an engagement is in Marseille.

- With your old act?

- Of course.

My partners have

great plans for me. It is just...

I would rather have been a tiny part of a

great act than the star of an ordinary one.

- Please, Tino, we don't talk about it...

- Oh, Lola.

Lola, stay. Don't go.

When he was swinging me, he made

me feel I could do anything up there.

You'll have to be happy

with a couple of simple tricks.

How could I ever dream of more?

Want me to tell you your fortune?

Only 100 francs for young lovers...

Shall we? I wonder if

she sees me with you on opening night.

Digli che saremo felici, eh?

- What is this we hear about Lola?

- Can't you see I'm busy?

Don't bother me. It's not my business.

Good house tonight, Mr. Bouglione.

Ah, Mr. Ringling North.

How can New York spare you so often?

Doesn't it worry you

to have others run your big circus?

Always looking for something good.

Takes a lot of acts to fill my three rings.

- Takes a lot of looking to find the best.

- I'm afraid we can't surprise you.

- I heard Mike Ribble has an act again.

- Ordinary, very ordinary.

He must have found a good flier

to tempt Mike out of the rafters.

An eager boy but without experience.

You wouldn't be interested.

If the new act's as classic as the old,

I'll be very interested.

- Mr. Bouglione...

- Don't bother me. Talk to her.

Yeah.

I feel as young as my first opening night.

I have the same ball in my stomach.

- The hoop?

- Why do I hate fire so much?

You go so fast, you never feel it.

It only looks dangerous.

Lola, look what I got for you.

- It's pretty.

- My father wears one like it.

He always says "Fear no trick,

for we are in strong hands. "

- It's for luck.

- Thank you.

You will need it, Lola. For all your tricks.

Rosa, allez, dpche-toi.

Qu'est-ce que tu attends?

Allez, ouvrez.

You promised to join us

when we got a booking.

- We have one in Marseille.

- I'm happy for you.

- The booking is for the act. All four.

- Get someone else.

Impossible.

Get out. I said get out.

She will leave you too. She will

spit on you just like she spit on us.

The costume's split.

Mike...

you didn't do that for the act.

I can remember when

those boys had a good act.

- Quiet, with no screaming, no fighting.

- Mike...

Then you came. The routines and quality

went, but the spotlight stayed on you.

Why must you hate me?

Why always hate?

When this engagement ends, you're out.

Tino and me work alone, as we planned.

With that stick you walk, but with Tino you

fly. You think you can live through Tino?

- Ask Tino who makes him live.

- No more tricks, Lola. You're out.

I could mean more to Tino than you.

I can take him whenever I want.

That trick I've still got.

For your own sake, Lola, get out.

Or one night these hands

won't be there to catch you.

Allez-y doucement, bon Dieu!

Dgagez le passage, espce d'idiot.

Appelez-moi le vtrinaire

immdiatement.

- What happened?

- The flames. The horse shied.

Pepe! Bobo! Max! In the ring!

Make plenty of noise! Allez!

All right. We follow with the bears. Why

aren't the bears ready? Forget the bears.

- Mike, your act goes on next.

- Tino. Lola.

Put out that net for the flying act. Get this

horse out. Girls, don't stand there! Places!

Avance, Lucien.

Foutez-moi le camp de l-dedans!

- What happened?

- All that hurry, I slipped on the stairs.

- Let me look.

- It's nothing. It's nothing!

Why are you getting so excited?

You must do...

Tino.

You did that. You killed him.

Chikki, it was the flames. I told you before.

Why should I waste my talent,

my horse and my life on such a woman?

Why should you?

I leave. Right now, I leave.

How many more years you gonna

keep on watching him, Otto?

Not much longer.

The boy flies in like a cannonball.

He needs two good legs.

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