Tuesday, October 16, 2018

PAPER #5


Posted by Chic Silber at 10/16/2018 02:09:00 AM

4 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Vander Clyde Broadway got himself out of the rather pedestrian surroundings of Round Rock, Texas, re-invented himself as a female-impersonating aerialist, and became a legend.

16 October, 2018 18:41
BOBBY'S LITL BRO. said...

HE WAS A LEGEND IN EUROPE . ALWAYS PRODUCED A TOP NOTCH AERIAL BALLET FOR MANY SHOWS. IF YOU SAID YOU WERE A BARBETTE GIRL YOU WOULD HAVE A JOB !

16 October, 2018 19:10
Chic Silber said...


Aside from his superb single trap routine

he was also Ringling's aerial director

for quite a few seasons before Antoinette

17 October, 2018 01:02
Roger Smith said...

The last time I saw Barbette, he was on the Beatty lot, in '64, helping Gerry Soules regain his heel-catching single trap.

17 October, 2018 13:42

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