Friday, December 30, 2005

Only 5 more days! #2


Posted by Buckles at 12/30/2005 06:51:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this where SILKS comes from. I assumed SILKS was a new act for the circus. Kelly Miller has a very nice SILKS performance. It was the first I had ever seen.

30 December, 2005 10:57
Buckles said...

I don't know if the material in the ladies long capes is silk or not, I doubt it.
In this case when they reached the top of the rigging, on cue, they opened the capes forming four American flags.
Since "Old Glory" has 13 stripes, we have 52 ladies aloft accompanied by 52 gentlemen on the ground.

30 December, 2005 11:13
Anonymous said...

Long before understanding about "Generally Useful", I thought clowns were only clowns, and those guys holding the girls' ropes only came out to do that and went home. During the big web number in about 1951, I spotted a whiteface clown as a "rope guy", and leapt up aghast exclaiming,
"Look! Clowns have to do that job, too!"

01 January, 2006 04:48
Anonymous said...

SILKS looks like a web act with a lot of material [silk} A lot of the youth circus schools teach this. My web was still in the basemnet of a house I lived in in the 60s, Probably dry rotted by now. I always have liked that performance. Looks a lot easier then it is. With the Silk idea now, a dozen girls in the air would be very flashy. As a cage act person I did not have to be generally useful, but I was anyway. It was fun.

03 January, 2006 13:35

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