Friday, April 12, 2013

Aerialists #5

Posted by Buckles at 4/12/2013 05:29:00 AM

3 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Those Comeau girls were exceptionally beautiful. Mickey was a prize. This graceful lady is Antoinette, the first woman to achieve the triple, under the direction of her husband Arthur M. Concello. What a perfect circus shot--sitting on a Taylor trunk, with the ever-present washline in the background.

12 April, 2013 17:28
JACKIE said...

Of course. The photo to me did have a look of Atoinette, but in my days around her, she was always so, well, almost thin. I guess she was a lot older than I thought. What was her birth and age when she passed away?

12 April, 2013 20:28
Roger Smith said...

JACKIE: The CIRCUS REPORT obit of Feb. 27, 1984, did not give her date of birth, or age at death, just that she had died at home in Sarasota, on February 5th. This account is unsigned, but the author claims she was 16 when she joined Sells-Floto. My hard-driving, relentless research finds Steve Gossard's article, MICKEY KING, in the July-Aug 2009 BANDWAGON--in which he notes all 5 Comeau children were born on a farm in Sutton, Quebec. Marie Gertrude (Mickey) was born in August (no date) of 1905. No dates were given for Rose, Marie Antoinette, Joe, or Ernest. My keen deductions conclude that if Antoinette was 16 when she joined S-F in '27, she would have been born in 1911, thus her age at death, depending on her birthday, was either 72 or 73. All this considered, Kenny Dodd would know.

13 April, 2013 15:21

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