Show Aerial Gymnast Queen of Circus Dies From Hurts Suffered in Fall COPE COPENHAGEN AGES Feb 16 United Press Thc Press The The thoughts of tho thousands of and performers In sawdust rings throughout bout the world turned to Copenhagen today wh where re Lillian aerial gymnast and acknowledged que queen n of the cl circus cus lay lay dead The little athlete whose amazing trapeze performances and radiant personality won ou her recognition inmany Inmany in hi many lands died In her sleep at 2 a. a m. m Sunday from franz injuries received when a defective apparatus broke and the he fell to the ring in hi which which she she had become famous Her husband Alfred Allred Cordona a Me Mexican gymnast performing in Berlin came to his wife's bedside but left la late Saturday when her condition condition con con- appeared improved cd She died dieda a lew hours later I Lillian Ll most spectacular act never er had been duplicated by another another another an an- other performer Hanging by one arm lions from a rope at the top of at the thel circus tent she cue twisted her entire body in hi successive revolutions on a swinging ring between and times Umes Her record was 2 24 lions The trapeze artist starred for many seasons with the Ringling Brothers- Brothers Barnum and Bailey Dalley circus and was very popular In vaudeville vaude Her Ha performance performance per per- held a special appeal for children and she was WIlS always willing willingto to amuse youngsters by sp special lal ap ap- ap- ap The queen of or the circus lived JIved like Uke a royal figure She traveled hi In her private ate car and carried a retinue of servants servant and attendants Her pe on r Pua ca Two Tho X i 44 r QUEEN Of Q CIRCUS DIES Of INJURIES Continued from Page Pace One cia cial kitchen was part of ot the circus train and at the high point of oC the program under the big top when Lillian came into the ring everything thing else jf stopped and every was directed upon her tiny figure swaying high above the Miss was noted among circus circus circus cir cir- cir cir- cus people for he her generosity and nd democracy She was never temperamentAl temperamental temperamental tempera tempera- mental and was one of the best loved performers among the thousands of men and women of the circus and theatrical worlds with whom she came In contact during a career of twenty years |