Codice albumGBB-F-006384

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006384-0000

1874 ca, GREAT BRITAIN: The british transvestite performer and Circus arealist SAM HUNT as LULU.The aerialist Lulu, who first won fame in London in the 1870s, was actually a female impersonator named Sam Hunt renamed THE BEAUTIFUL GODDESS OF THE AIR at time. Lulu was a protégé of celebrated Circus rope-walking Farini and in 1870 Lulu had become a feminine celebrity in London, only from 1874 reveal what Lulu as a cross-dressed. The artist rope-walking Blondin, Farini's rival, said publicly that Lulu was Farini's young male patner initialli named El Nino in mid-1860's.As adolescent performer Hunt's Lulu was acclaimed for her refined pale beauty, her flowing curls and frills and she intigated a look that the real mowen aerialist copied. Farini also invented a eight-foot-high spring propulsion mechanism hidden under the stage so it appeared as if Lulu's stiff body jumped up, unaided. With Lulu created a performance phenomenon that helped forge an impressive of feminine weigthlessnes. This Waltz music was specially created and dedicated to her him. In this photo the cover of sheet-music song" LU LU", composed by Charles Coote Junior, a Walzer, pubblished by Offenbach am Main (Germany) M. Johannes André (London).

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