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TIGHT-ROPE THRILL

GIRL HIGH ABWE THE C-TY. | NEW- YORK, December- 15. Broadway, I\ew' York, vu startled yesterday afternoon by tb<3 sp e etacle -of a girl ’walking across 'it on 10001 1 of wire stretched at a height ol 300 ft. she bad --negotiated . her perilous Heat, she was ari'Ssled and hurried'to ' police station where 4 he was charged with endangering the lives of people ip the street. Giving the name of Hiss Tiny Hi me, aged 26, she said she- had taken th.s spectacular means of calling attention to the Unemployment probMn and her own desperate neeo of work. .She had stretched a v;n;e from the roof of |he Hotel Edison tile Palace Theatre- at tjie intersection of Fortyseventh ’.Street -and Broadway, near Time’s Square, which is usually the most crowded part of New \9r.k. .Traffic was halted and matinee - crowd s gasped with hcyror as they' saw 1 - the slim figure of the girl in cream-coloured tights apparently walking J6V. air.

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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 3

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TIGHT-ROPE THRILL Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 3

TIGHT-ROPE THRILL Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 3

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