One of numerous publicity photos of her available. According to her bios online she was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota on 8 Sep 1914. She started performing early on, with her mother as manager, in Wyoming with the Al G. Eventually this lead to her working with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey for some twenty-odd years. She went by the titles. The Living Venus De Milo.

A guy NOT deformed but who had trained himself into a marketable skill. Though most believed her to be a man. She was possibly born in Austria about 1913 and.

Here was another performer that precious little was known about, and like Ella, he had many question marks in his life story. I knew from the start that this guy was going to be tougher researching than Ella was because he was not.