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Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ing whichheld the bar had parted, the rope was gliding roundthe bar, and in another moment we should be lyingsenseless on the stage. I shouted * under to the ter-rified super, who instantly swung the bar back to itsplace, and I dropped my brother on it as the laststrand snapped and I plunged downward. I saw thelower bar darting toward me and I made a desperategrasp at it, for it was my last chance. I missed it!Down through the air I fell, striking heavily on thestage. The blow rendered me senseless and my col-lar bone was broken. I was hurried behind the scenes,and soon came to my senses. My first thought wasthat I must go back and go through my performance 542 ACROBATICS AND EQUESTRIANISM. :it once, ami J actually made a dash for the stage —hut I was restrained, and ii was many weeks before Iwas able to perforin again.1 The circus-goers of a decade ago were »ccustomedto tight-rope and slack-wire performances in the ring,when old men and young women, emulative of the eeh•-■.. ^
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MDME. LASALLE. ebrated Blondin, went through some wonderful evolu-tions in mid-air. Now the tight-rope and loose wirehave both almost entirely disappeared from the ring,and only in the small shows are they given a place inthe programme. Still there are many excellent per-formers in this line who find employment on the varietystage among specialty people. The best of these isZanfretti, the pantomime clown, who though an old ACROBATICS AND EQUESTRIANISM. 543 man displays wonderful agility when with balance-polein hand he finds himself at the half-way point on hisrope. Ladies who have taken to the hempen pathhave attained prominence as rope-walkers. One ofthe most beautiful and at the same time dangerous, ofthe performances that the small shows offer to theiraudiences is that of Madame Lasalle, who places herlittle eight-year-old daughter in a wheelbarrow filledwith flowers, and on a rope thirty feet above theground without net beneath and with nothing buthard ground to receive both in c

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