Friday, August 25, 2006

Gollmar Bros. Circus 1922 #2


Looking at this polar bear den reminds me that I had a chat with John Herriott yesterday and the subject of Ursula came up. He said that at the Ringling Park he found her to be anything but an extrovert.
Every morning he would greet her with "Good Morning Ursula, how are things today?" and she would always answer "50/50". Sometimes he would follow up with "It's going to be a beautiful day in sunny Florida, don't you think maybe 70/30?" and in departing, she would repeat "50/50".

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

when i met Ursula in Berlin, she shook my hand.Never before or since have i felt anything like that. She nearly broke it. I remember fearing the goodby shake.