TRAPEZE GIRL FALLS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 2

TRAPEZE GIRL FALLS

REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS INJURY. 3000 HORRIFIED SPECTATORS. Amid the shrieks of 3000 horrified people, an 18-year-old girl trapeze artist fell 30 feet from her trapeze at a circus at Fallowfield, Manchester, and crashed headlong to the ground. The girl, Mill Lily Lower, of Tooting, London, was hanging from the trapeze by her teeth when she lost her grip. Attendants who rushed to her assistance were relieved to find that her injuries were confined to a fracture of the wrist, which, however, will keep her out of the show for some time. Miss Lower is one of the Three Swing Sisters, the others being her 19-year-old sister Ivy—who had a similar fall at Luton—and Miss Renee Parsons, of Brixton. Their act consists of being hoisted by their teeth, which grip on rubber pads, to trapeezes 30 feet above the audience. A trapeze display follows. The trio had reached the end of their display on the trapezes and were being lowered from the tent top, 40 feet above the ground, hanging by the teeth from the rubber pads, when the accident occurred. Ten feet of the descent had been made, and the girls were spinning round like tops. Then someone in the vast audience shrieked, and a woman fainted. One of the girls had lost her grip. As she fell, men and women tried to leave their seats, thinking that she was going to fallen them. Miss Lower, however, fell on to the steps leading to the rows of seats. A doctor attended her, and Miss Lower was then taken to Nell Lane Hospital.