 His costume was also capable of quick transformation, converting to a woman's dress and back again in seconds.A profile of Proper in "The New Yorker" reported that the costume weighed 60 pounds loaded, and it took him 45 minutes to prepare it for each performance.Proper performed as The Banana Man in the Broadway musical "Jumbo", in the short film "Seeing Red" starring Red Skelton, and in the 1947 feature film "Mother Wore Tights" starring Betty Grable.