Evening star., 1940-05-17
BY ALFRED TOOABs.

BY ALFRED TOOMBs.
The dainty queen Of the air was
raised in q convent. She has since
learned to eat steak for breakfast,
to do q triple somersault through
space and to see things most clearly
while upside down.
Her name is Antoinette Concello
and she is the glamour girl Of the
circus world-the most daring young
lady on any flying trapeze. She
and her husband Arthur are billed
as the Flying Comedies in the Ring
ling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Cir
Gus, which is playing here now, and
are the worlds greatest aeriahsts.
Tony is 20 years old and Art is
20. They own things like apart
ment houses and farms and they
have a chauffeur to drive their car.
They have arranged life so that
they are on a 15-minute work day
and this isn't really work because
they think it's fun.
Some day, If they don't break
their necks first, they are going to
retire and raise a family. They
have been married for about 10
years now and the fact that they
both are still in one piece is elo-
quent testimony to their compati-
bility.
Aerialist Tycoons.
Art and Tony, in addition TO being
the star aerialists Of show business,
are tyc0cns In the flying trapeze
industry. For they train and con-
troll most Of the good flying teams
in operation today.
Tony,s title Of dainty queen was
bestowed upon her by the modest
minded soul who thinks UP adjec-
tives for the circus. She is q pretty
girl and tiny-except for her shoul-
ders, which look Ike they'd been
borrowed from the Notre Dame lire.
Trap artists are Of two kinds.
One is the catcher-the gent who
hangs by his knees and whose
strong hands, ne always at exactly
the right place at exactly the right
time, or is there q doctor In the
house.
The other is the flyer, or leaper
Tony and Art are flyers. They leave
their bar, twisting or somersaulting
into the catcher's hands.
When they get up on the plat
form, so feet above the earth, they
don't think about or talk about
anything but the business at hand.
Leave Squabbles on Ground.
Sometimes they mention about
the weather-it gets up to 100 de-
grees at the top Of the tent in mid
summer. They leave their squab-
bles on the ground and usually by
the time they get back to terra
firma, they have forgotten what all
the shooting was about.
The conditions they dread most
are high winds or soft earth, either
of which make their swings as un-
steady as q sailor on the hrst night
in port.
The nets which spread beneath
them-and which they make them
selves in the of season-are good
for breaking falls, provided they
land exactly right. The ordinary
falls are not much Of a menace, but
trap artists fear break in their
gear.
If the gear should break they
would be hurled out beyond the nets.
Art has four men to handle the
rigging for his act and he goes over
1t all personally before they 60 up.
He directs the action when. they
reach the platform. He tells Tony
when to go and then, watching the
position Of the catcher. tells her
when to break. She follows his
directions exactly and his timing
must be exact.
Tony can do q triple somersault.
No other girl is able to do more
than two somersaults. She doesn't
do the triple unless Art decides con-
ditions are exactly right, but she
almost always does a two-and-a-
half.
Seeks Promising Girl Aerialist:
They run school for aerialists
during the winter in Bloomington,
III. They work hard to develop
new talent and then send their
finds out on the road. Tony has
been trying for . long time to dis
cover . good girl aerjalist.
The flrst thing they teach the
newcomers Is how to fall. You are
supposed to fall into the net on
your back, with your chin tucked
In and your arms folded. In this
way. you can expect to get OF with