Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Ringling-Barnum Circus 1927/ Lillian Leitzel


The best remembered of lady aerialists, Lillian Leitzel who in 1930 fell to her death in Copenhagen.

Posted by Buckles at 8/09/2005 06:34:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most photos of Leitzel were posed to conceal the overdevelopment of her right shoulder, the pivotal point in her record-setting planges. Being a small woman, her deltoid was noticeably out of proportion. In Copenhagen, her swivel snapped, and she dropped on her head and shoulders directly beside her rigger, Frank McClosky, who had glanced off at the wrong moment. Roger

09 August, 2005 22:48

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