Sarah 'Babe' Kalishek

In her teens, Sarah “Babe” Kalishek (1902-1999) left home with a traveling vaudeville act, where she performed as a singer and as an assistant to a trained animal act. Before long, she found herself training animals for silent films in California. It was there she saw a newspaper ad for Barr’s Flying Circus. ('Daredevil In the Sky' by Kylie Kalishek). Barr’s Flying Circus in Venice, California was looking for a woman willing to learn aerial acrobatics. She thought, “It sound…