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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alfredo Codona, 43, onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last...
...called Lorimer Luck† occurred at the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding in San Francisco in 1923. Mrs. Harding had just read to the ailing President an article about himself by the Post's Samuel G. Blythe when he turned quietly over and died. In 1931, brilliant Lillian Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue of the S. E. P. hit the stands a week ahead of the Ivar Kreuger...
...wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
Engaged. Alfredo Codona, trapeze per, former, widower of Lillian Leitzel, famed. trapezist who died last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931); and Vera Bruce, a member of his troupe; in St. Louis...
Alfredo Codona, world's No. 1 trapezist since the death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore...