Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Look Ma, no hands!


Desmuke, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

One legged dancers are nice but how about this man with no arms who could throw knives with precision?

This is Paul Desmuke out of San Antonio. Once doubled for Lon Chaney. If you see Chaney in a pic throwing knives with his feet, you're looking at Desmuke.

A top notch sideshow act in his day.

Whitey

2 comments:

Raffaele De Ritis said...

The movie is MGM's "The Unknown" directed by Tod Browning, few years before he directed "Freaks".

Anonymous said...

...as the partner on the board contemplates another path in life...