Make It Bigger And Better
Help me with the name of this act.
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I’m no help. I never saw a wheel worked with a motorcycle, and far less being done on a perch pole. Someone step up and name this act.
The rigging in the background looks like the Trio Angelos, whom we had with us on Castle, in ’73. In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, the lead of the act, Henning Schmucker, was on the far extension of this revolving rigging, performing his head spin from a neck loop. The leather safety on the loop split open, and he barely grabbed on in time to keep from falling some 60 feet. He came down terrified, showing us the ripped stitching on the safety. He sat down in the dressing room trying to catch his breath, when he suddenly dropped dead to the floor. Paramedics could not revive him, and Henning was buried in Ft. Wayne, pending possible reinterment later in his native Denmark. I don’t know if this was ever done. His brother, Vern had been working as assistant to me on the cat act, and at once took over Henning’s place in the Trio Angelos.