Jessica Martin was a young tightrope artist in the 1920s whose skills and beauty were no doubt the reason the Sparks Circus commissioned his gorgeous one sheet about 1928.
When Jessica graduated from high school in South Philadelphia in 1923, the “class prophecy” predicted that “all eyes would be centered on Mlle. Jessica Martin, queen of the wire, gracefully performing at the dome of the mammoth canvas.” That prophecy certainly came true in the years that followed!
-Chris Berry