Throwback Thursday and Emma Jutau
Emma Justau was a gymnast and trapeze
performer during the late 1800s. She worked in many venues, including the
infamous Koster and Bial’s Music Hall. On February 12, 1889, the New York Times reported that “Emma Jutau has proved a great favorite at
Koster & Bial’s, and her wonderful trapeze acts and aerial flights were
warmly commended by the audience last night…”
Koster and Bial’s Music Hall began in
NYC on the northwest corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, in an
area known for its vice and bad behavior. Soon the theatre expanded into a
2100 seat vaudeville theater located
next door at 115-117 West 23rd Street. The history of this
establishment https://experiencenomad.com/koster-and-bials-music-hall/
is fascinating, but I digress.
Emma Jutau married fellow gymnast George
W. Brown and the book The Social Mirror: A
Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburg states that Emma was born near Monongahela
City and adds that “she is a handsome blonde of a remarkably fine figure”.
Part of Emma’s act is described in the
ebook Fun by T. Moffat: “her principal feat is to descend from a
great height at a rate of over sixty miles an hour, suspended by her teeth
beneath a wire set at an angle of forty-five degrees”.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Factoid #145:
“Emma Jutau was a gymnast and trapeze artist in the
late 1800s.”
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