barbette performer barbette december august american female high wire performer artist born texas december barbette attained great popularity united_states greatest fame came europe especially paris 1920s 1930s barbette began performing age half circus act called years circus work barbette went solo adopted exotic sounding pseudonym performed drag revealing male end act following career ending illness injury barbette returned texas continued work consultant motion pictures training aerial acts number years dealing chronic pain barbette committed suicide august life following death barbette served inspiration number artists including early life career barbette birth cited clyde broadway born december cited texas sources indicate born barbette stated birthplace draft dated september states birthday december confusion surrounds barbette father passport application barbette lists father notes deceased barbette death certificate gives father jeff death certificate lists mother barbette listed passport application draft registration form barbette given birth date december mother née martin living texas household maternal great grandparents farmer aged listed widow census son given december living household younger brother broadway married second husband worked factory children sons daughters born mother second marriage barbette known loving barbette mother took circus early age austin fascinated wire act time took circus austin knew performer work fields cotton picking season earn money order circus possible barbette practiced hours walking mother steel clothes line graduated high school age high school barbette began circus career half team sisters died unexpectedly barbette answered surviving sister replacement auditioning san_antonio pair decided dramatic woman perform stunts told women clothes wire act impressive asked mind dressing girl didn began following time barbette joined act called act included people hung spinning apparatus teeth developed solo act moved stage took barbette believing exotic french sound solo debut barbette performed wire stunts drag maintaining illusion end act pull wig strike exaggerated masculine poses years toured advertised versatile specialty europe barbette european debut having sent england paris appeared venues casino paris empire returned america appear passing ran months beginning september featured attraction toured london brussels berlin engagement london barbette found engaged sexual activity man contract cancelled able obtain work permit england barbette championed avant garde artist wrote belgian friend critic week brussels music hall act called barbette keeping fortnight young american wire act great actor angel friend tell everybody mere women clothes graceful beautiful things theatre poets painters seen comparable display stage friends wrote great loss barbette terrific act casino paris unforgettable minutes theatrical masterpiece angel flower bird wrote influential essay nature theatre called barbette published essay celebrates barbette theatrical barbette writes transforms forth man woman female glamour cloud dust thrown eyes audience movements needs perform complete end act barbette simply remove wig instead plays man rolls shoulders stretches hands swells muscles fifteenth curtain gives shifts foot foot bit apology little street dance fabulous dying swan impression left act calls fellow artists incorporate deliberately effect believes barbette commissioned series photographs barbette artist captured aspects barbette performance process transformation female persona cast barbette experimental film sang blood poet film barbette appears scene theatre box extras dressed burst applause sight card game ends suicide replaced husband originally shot scene appalled seeing finished film card game suicide shot separately speaking preparation scene barbette knew replacing said tried imagine descendant long line rich boy texas demanded lot concentration working wire fell love barbette persona affair short lived barbette european circle included barbette credited having returned united_states star broadway circus musical sources suggest barbette end performing career later life barbette continued perform mid late 1930s sources report year early late end barbette performing career attributed number causes including fall pneumonia combination generally agree cause barbette left extreme pain need surgery extensive rehabilitation allow walk artistic director trainer number including work described ing aerial ballet swing high girls female routines barbette specialty barbette served consultant number films including circus sequences till clouds roll hired coach gender illusion film like hot biographer wrote profile barbette new_yorker entitled angel flower bird created circus sequences produced broadway musical world barbette created aerial ballet disney parade toured australia barbette spent months texas living austin sister severe pain committed suicide august survived sister mary half brother barbette cremated ashes buried round rock cemetery cultural legacy addition essay appearance sang barbette inspired characterization death play book barbette collecting essay new_yorker profile photographs material published based character film murder barbette book length poem barbette written won poetry award performance artist commission based piece light shall lift barbette story told play barbette written presented dallas texas barbette inspiration german film und features plot woman pretending female gimmick removing wig end act inspired barbette signature gesture und remade girl und inspired broadway musical french restaurant minneapolis named barbette
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