Friday, April 12, 2013

Aerialists #6

Posted by Buckles at 4/12/2013 05:27:00 AM

5 comments:

JACKIE said...

Some one like me hates to make this comment, but having done trapeze as a woman for a short time, this certainly has the appearance of a man. Specially in the waist and middle areas. I mean not offence, but the look is there. The facial features are manish too. Good Lord, I hope itis not someones gentle lovely grandmother. This is just an opinion.

12 April, 2013 20:32
Chic Silber said...


I don't see an adam's apple Jackie

& no scarf to hide it either but

otherwise I tend to agree with you

Wasn't it Vander Barbette that did

his trap routine in drag for years

12 April, 2013 21:19
Buckles said...

On the back of this picture is written:
"Charlie Silbon, Eddie's nephew, was killed seven years ago during triple to the net."
Writer's name and date were not included.

12 April, 2013 23:37
JACKIE said...

His demise surely sadens me. Some one should write a book of all the falls and fatalities that performers have had. We seem to pass by these folks and they need to be remembered for their contribution to the circus world. We only hear about them from folk lore of some of the old timers.

13 April, 2013 09:31
Dick Flint said...

Again, we see the handwriting at the bottom of Col. C.G. Sturtevant, historian of the CFA from its founding in 1926 until his 1953 death, identifying the photo as Charlie Silbon. They were contemporaries and Sturtevant knew many members of the Siegrist-Silbon troupe so I see little reason to question the written identity given. Jackie's perceptive suggestions certainly prove to be correct.

Sturtevant himself, by the way, was proficient as an athlete on the bars and so had a kinship with flyers, knew many personally, and could understand their work.

Dick Flint
Baltimore

13 April, 2013 11:34

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