Thursday, September 28, 2006

From Clownron


Does anyone remember Henty Schroer?

Posted by Buckles at 9/28/2006 06:19:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Henry was quite good with his whip and it is a toss-up between Henry and Wolfgang Holzmair as to who could make my partner Mark and I 'dance' the longest. For some reason they found much pleasure in an improvised 'buck and wing' session.

I also remember Henry and Gunther playing a game of 'bull-whip' hockey backstage in Miami once. The object was to hit a crushed paper cup over or past the other player. It was in full view of a matinee audience entering the arena and they just froze in place. H & G were actually hitting the cup on the fly.

28 September, 2006 12:18
Anonymous said...

I could keep a beer can in the air for as long as I wanted to. Paper just fell apart. I got more fun out of showing off with the whip then with the cats. I bought a bull whip at the fea market on the dog track in Colorado one year. I had not touched a whip in years. It was like yesterday when I flip the can from the ground and kept it in the air. It really impresed the motor cycle gang who had the stall where I bought the whip. Just can't take the old show broad out of me no matter how many years pass.

28 September, 2006 16:59
Anonymous said...

Richrd Reynolds asks --

Was Henry the one who took over Gunther's leopard act for a year or two on the Red unit. What happened to him and the act? I seem to recall that it went to South America.

28 September, 2006 17:40
Anonymous said...

Rebecca, you are right, it may have been a can not paper.

Great story about Henry. Against our advice he put a chrome elephant on his hood but the trunk was down. I used to drive it overland for him. I walked out back of the Amphitheater in the south-side of Chicago and Henry saw me and threw his keys at my head. "See if it still runs..." It tured out that one of the elephants knocked Tyla off the loading ramp to the train and she fell on Henry's Olds.

It still ran but the trunk was flat as a pancake. Henry bought a newer Olds and yes, he put the chrome elephant on the new car. Gunther decided to drive overland one trip and in his benevolence told Henry to go ahead and put his car on the train. When we reached the next town Henry threw the keys at my head and said "See if it runs..." I guess nobody told Henry to put his antenna down and when the train went into a tunnel 25,000 volts went through his dash. There was a big dark spot on the front fender where the aerial 'used' to be and a black hole where his stereo should have been.

Now for #3... Thank god somebody stole his elephant.

29 September, 2006 12:28

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