May Wirth - Revision history

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 File:May_Martin_(Wirth).jpeg|May Martin, Contortionist (c.1905)
 File:May_Wirth_Somersault.jpg|May Wirth (1913)
 File:May_Wirth_1920.jpeg|May Wirth (1920)
 File:May_Wirth.jpg|May Wirth (1920)

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 ===May Settles In the United States===
-[[File:May_Wirth_Poster_1924.jpeg|thumb|right|400px|May Wirth (1924]]May had known Frank White since 1907 when he joined Wirth’s Circus in Australia. He did a number of jobs around the show, including selling tickets, playing a bass drum in the band, and eventually landing a role as "Fidem," the clown in May’s riding act. May and White wed in New York in 1919. By the time of their marriage, Frank was involved in the booking agency business, using the name of Frank Wirth for professional purposes. The ''New York Times'' of August 31, 1924 reported that their home was under construction in the exclusive New York residential district of Forest Hills, in Queens.
+[[File:May_Wirth_RBBB.jpeg|thumb|right|450px|May Wirth (c.1925)]]May had known Frank White since 1907 when he joined Wirth’s Circus in Australia. He did a number of jobs around the show, including selling tickets, playing a bass drum in the band, and eventually landing a role as "Fidem," the clown in May’s riding act. May and White wed in New York in 1919. By the time of their marriage, Frank was involved in the booking agency business, using the name of Frank Wirth for professional purposes. The ''New York Times'' of August 31, 1924 reported that their home was under construction in the exclusive New York residential district of Forest Hills, in Queens.
 ''The Clipper'' of May 17, 1922 reported the Wirth troupe’s imminent opening at London’s Coliseum. Returning to New York, it was engaged as a $1,500-a-week extra attraction for Jean Bedini’s ''Chuckles of 1922'', a revue that played the Columbia Wheel, a New York vaudeville circuit. Then the Wirth act headlined the [[Walter L. Main Circus]] in 1923, beginning with an April 7 stand in Charlottesburg, Virginia.

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 File:May_Wirth_Handstand.jpeg|May Wirth (1923)
 File:May_Wirth_Poster_1924.jpeg|Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Poster (1924)
 File:Mills_May_Wirth.jpeg|May Wirth at Bertram Mills Circus (1926)
 File:May_Wirth_-_Vesque.jpeg|May Wirth by the Vesque Sisters (1929)

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 ==See Also==
-* Video: [[May_Wirth_Video_Video_(1924)|May Wierth]], video clips (1924)
+* Video: [[May_Wirth_Video_Video_(1924)|May Wirth]], video clips (1924)
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 File:May_Wirth_Poster_1924.jpeg|Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Poster (1924)
 File:Mills_May_Wirth.jpeg|May Wirth at Bertram Mills Circus (1926)
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-[[File:May_Wirth_Somersault.jpg|thumb|right|400px|May Wirth (1913)]]Nonetheless, she was spotted by one of John Ringling’s talent scouts and was engaged in 1912 to tour the United States with his [[Barnum & Bailey]] circus. May was immediately billed as "the world’s greatest bareback rider" and was given a conspicuous place on the programme for their season opening at New York’s Madison Square Garden, on March 21, 1912: Her flic-flacs on horseback and her back somersault from horse to horse was indeed exceptional.
+[[File:May_Wirth_Somersault.jpg|thumb|left|400px|May Wirth (1913)]]Nonetheless, she was spotted by one of John Ringling’s talent scouts and was engaged in 1912 to tour the United States with his [[Barnum & Bailey]] circus. May was immediately billed as "the world’s greatest bareback rider" and was given a conspicuous place on the programme for their season opening at New York’s Madison Square Garden, on March 21, 1912: Her flic-flacs on horseback and her back somersault from horse to horse was indeed exceptional.
 An observer wrote that the Australian girl was "an equestrienne in all that the name implies ... She is announced as the greatest female rider that ever lived.  Whether this is so or not, we cannot say, as we have not seen all that have gone before in days of yore, when many equestrian feats were performed that are not performed today, but we can and do say that Miss Wirth is the best equestrienne [we have] ever seen."