Thursday, July 07, 2011

Grand Finale #19

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5 comments:

Eric said...

According to Joe Bradbury, during the parade, the rigging for Betty Hutton’s trapeze struck low, overhead wires on several occasions.

Frank Ferrante said...

Shocking!

Frank Ferrante said...

Wonder if the hotel and the Young Company created that sign just for publicity in the film./ff

Anonymous said...

No one remembered how they lifted wires out of the way during the era of telescoping tableaus, with what were essentially long-wooden handled, two-tine pitch forks.

Anonymous said...

anonymous: they've been using the same thing in our local parades for years too.

also anonymous