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| ======Upside-down Straitjacket Escape====== | ======Upside-down Straitjacket Escape====== | ||
| - | The earliest known report of a performer freeing himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside-down appeared in the //Yonkers Statesman// of Dec. 6, 1912, done the previous day at the Orpheum Theater in New York City by Al Pitroff, performing under the name of " | + | The earliest known report of a performer freeing himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside-down appeared in the //[[http:// |
| In an advertisement in 1920, British performer Madge Belmont (Mary Jane Elizabeth Hawkins, 1877-1931) made a claim of having done this feat in 1912, but no evidence of such a performance has been discovered. Indeed, the first reports of escape performances by Belmont are for the autumn of 1913, with a possibility of escape performances by her as early as June of that year. | In an advertisement in 1920, British performer Madge Belmont (Mary Jane Elizabeth Hawkins, 1877-1931) made a claim of having done this feat in 1912, but no evidence of such a performance has been discovered. Indeed, the first reports of escape performances by Belmont are for the autumn of 1913, with a possibility of escape performances by her as early as June of that year. | ||