Word: millman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acrobatic lady, we think, is truly fortunate in having chosen a profession which keeps in trim her beautiful figure. The trick bicycle riders who opened the show broke the ground very nicely for King and Beatty, who did a Bullard and Cogan at the piano, and after that Bird Millman, the Little Queen of the Wire, performed her clothes-line classic, throwing in slow-movies of herself and a bit of song for good measure. Then there were a couple of skits, one about married life and the other about love--very entertaining, particularly the latter, a scene...
...many of those sophisticates who prate about the perfect strength and grace of the Periclean Greeks have ever seen the Roth Brothers in their marvelous acrobatics, or the Aristpphanic clownings of those amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...
...well to Mr. Brown's mouth. As a combination of both humour and music the manager offered Ted Lewis, which statement is quite sufficient unto itself; his saxophone and his wit are still in first-rate repair. And as the prettiest girl of the evening, we vote for Bird Millman, who left us all "Up in the Air" over her slack-wire dancing...