Took daughter to Billy Smart's circus on Chingford plain. Saw a trapeze artiste perform a triple somersault. I had only just stopped telling my daughter, with great enthusiasm on my part, about seeing the classic black and white film trapeze, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, in which, at the beginning, Lancaster falls from the trapeze, attemping the triple somersault, and cripples himself. He then has to train Tony Curtis to perform this stunt. I thought the triple somersault was Hollywood fantasy; I never thought I would see it for real. My daughter counted the somersaults, but it was too quick for me. No painting today.
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