March 16, 1934 –
An (almost) all singing Popeye cartoon, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, premiered on this date.
The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze is based on a real person: Jules Leotard. He was a former law student who ran away from home and joined a circus as an adolescent. Young Jules was the first performer to wear the skin-tight suit of clothes that would later be named after him; he died of tuberculosis aged only twenty-eight.
The Haus of Dcaligari 