2017年3月31日 · Lia Schwartz, a German-born and a person of short stature, performed as the midget Lya Graf in the famous US circus, Ringling and Barnum & Bailey. Graf became famous …

The circus lady, whose name was Lya Graf and who was twenty-seven inches tall, was a plump, well-proportioned brunette with sparkling dark eyes and a fresh peasant prettiness, and she …

2011年11月29日 · At a break in the hearings, a Ringling Bros. press agent barged into the room, accompanied by a performer named Lya Graf, just 21 inches tall. “Gangway,” the agent …

1073: Lya Graf. Immortalized in a Photo in Which She is Sitting on JP Morgan’s Lap. Born: c.1901-1913, Germany. Died: 1941, Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Present-day Oswiecim, …

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF FINANCE…Before being grilled by Senate counsel Ferdinand Pecora at a June 1, 1933 banking hearing, J.P. Morgan Jr was paid a surprise visit by Lya Graf, a …

J. P. Morgan Jr. was testifying before the Senate Banking Committee when a man placed a circus midget, Lya Graf, onto his lap. The U.S. Senate warned that any newspapers that printed the …

2003年4月6日 · The reason Lya Graf came to the Senate that day has been lost to history. Her employer, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was in town, but Graf had no …

2017年3月31日 · Die aus Deutschland stammende Kleinwüchsige Lia Schwartz, die als Lya Graf im berühmten US-Zirkus Ringling and Barnum & Bailey auftrat, erlangte Berühmtheit, als sie …

In addition, you'll gain access to detailed info on each performer and image in the collection. Almost everyone remembers the picture of a midget sitting on J. P. Morgan’s knee, but few …

2015年7月9日 · In particular, for the young woman, Lya Graf, who was the Barnum & Bailey midget, the results of her distress were particularly tragic: “The story of Lya Graf ends sadly. …