Thursday, December 27, 2018

MABEL #9


Posted by Chic Silber at 12/27/2018 12:05:00 AM

2 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Mabel with her hand-held hoop. We have a photo of Frank Phillips helping to break this trick after Mabel was torn up in 1950, by Pasha tigress (not the one seen here).

Over the years, on this Blog, we've had photos of these props. Note they are of wood, and the joints are covered by bits of tin, creased into place and literally held by small nails. When Louis Roth used them, he flashed them with decals of lion heads. By the time I got there, the nails were backing out, and the tin pieces were loose and beginning to curl out backwards. They were stored out of the way, but still present as if to stand guard over the old days on the Barnes show.

27 December, 2018 18:03
Roger Smith said...

As for her attire, she had no particular regimen for practice clothes.

28 December, 2018 00:38

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