Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Ernestine Clarke

Posted by Buckles at 4/05/2006 06:00:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ernestine got a lot of press in this era, although on this magazine, I cannot make out the year. Among many such hits were Stars and Stripes, the military press, Camel cigarette ads, which ran and re-ran worldwide, and the classic 1944 photo of her seated on Stranger, with Lou Jacobs on one knee offering homage to the bareback riding queen. Parley had this shot mounted on a standing cut-out, and later had it formed into a bronze statue. Her portrait was among those in the RBBB program page for "Beauties of the Big Top". Indeed, she was.

05 April, 2006 19:27
Buckles said...

Ernie once told me that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ringling were friends of her family and when she came to the Ringling Show they sort of took her under their wing.
She added that they even went so far as to give her a private dressing tent near the back door which caused much sabre rattling amongst the Old Guard.
At first she was very lonely until she finally persuaded Neets Deisler to share the dressing tent with her.

06 April, 2006 17:51

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