writing a play about Frank "Slats" Beeson, a famous female
impersonating wire walker for Ringling Brothers circus,
who performed under the name Berta Beeson.
Anyways - in one of my circus books, I stumbled on this
photo of Berta Beeson performing -and this is the only
actual photo I've seen of him performing - so I'm really
excited about this -the photo is black and white so I did
a quick colorizing of it and turned it into a caption -
but it's the black and white photo that I found that I really
like - partly because it does confirm that this wasn't a farce,
he was an attractive, talented performer -the book goes on
to say that the program notes include the tag
"Expect a lot, and Boy, oh Boy you get it"
Yes, we get it - as I said in my earlier post, Ringling Brothers
were savy enough to market an act to attract gay men to. I'd go.
PS - I recognize most of you don't share my enthusiasm about
the Circus, and Berta Beeson, and play writing.
Bear with me, I'll post some more captions in a day or two.
Nice fun caption Samantha. ^_^
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't mind posts like this, it's interesting. I never knew there was a cross dressing circus act on the high wire.
Wonder what a play would be about though. hmm. would a woman play the lead?
OOPS! -Samantha you dope!
ReplyDelete(We say OOPS! a lot here at Trans-Honey)
I described the Story in my November blog
"Stats" Beeson, the story, the play
(posted Nov 26) it includes a quick
outline of the play, and the true
story of the man who performed as
Berta Beeson.