Thu 6 Dec 2007
Tiny Kline’s Terrifying Trip over Times Square
Posted by michael under forthcoming books , women's history1 Comment
Twice a year I visit major media outlets in New York to present books from our newest catalog. A Spring 2008 catalog title receiving great interest is a memoir written by circus performer Tiny Kline, which is being published forty-four years after her 1964 death. Tiny played Tinker Bell at Disneyland and was known for sliding hands-free along an elevated cable by a “trapeze” rigged to her teeth. There is some terrifying YouTube footage from 1932 of her traversing the sky over Times Square here. Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline, edited by Janet M. Davis, will be published in June 2008 by the University of Illinois Press.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Oh my, that certainly was frightening! But it makes me all the more interested in reading the book. Thanks!