European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I a ire photographs by Michael Vaccaro Eduard Renner and Rudolph Trieble from towering Spires punctuating Germany s ruins hopeful aerialist thrill thousands dream of  the Church steeples of Germany have become forthe Camilla Mayer High wire troupe the chief prop in a unique show which draws enormous crowds of skyward staring people. Last month in the ruined old City of Frankfurt the Twenty four performers did their stints nine times each week they  two shows on saturdays and sundays and once each Day Gisela. Lenort Star of the show walked a three Quarter Inch wire stretched from the spire of the bombed out Nicholai Kirche to Frankfurt s Dom 250 Yards away. Eighteen year old Gisela five years a trouper is pretty enough so that some american observers said they bet she gets to Hollywood if a he troupe s Hope of an american tour materializes. She is one of six girls in the act youngest is a ten year old named Hella Farber who have been trained by Hans Zimmer manager and founder of the show. Zimmer believes in chills and thrills for his audiences. Using portable pylons wire Cable winches and the tallest buildings he can find in the cities on his schedule he exacts the maximum in breathlessness from crowds who pay five Marks  inside a roped off area on the ground. In addition to Gisela s tight rope walk Zimmer s performers slide from spire to Steeple while hanging by their Teeth Pyramid seven men on bicycles for a ride 160 feet above the ground. Their salaries Range from thirty to 120 Marks a Day for one and a half hour performances. They must also put in eight hours a Day of practice. Because the work is arduous they receive Semi heavy workers rations Hope soon to get the heavy workers allotment. It really takes muscle As Well As balance to walk the tight rope. Gisela explains. You see we have to balance with the help of Metal poles that weigh forty to sixty  thirteen year old billed As Camilla Mayer does some of original Star s tricks. Sliding a timidly Down a thick wire Cable from Frankfurt s Dom to the main River three member of the Camilla Mayer troupe hang on4 by their Teeth to each other for descent the troupe was named after its first Star Young acrobat who plunged to her death in Berlin s deutschland Halle. Weekend april 3, 1948 continued on next Page