Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Allen King #1 (From Dave Price)



Everyone seems to know that Allen King worked in security at Ford Motors in Detroit after he left the circus. And many are aware that it was Allen who married the lovely and talented Mickey Comeau, giving her the name Mickey King, by which she is remembered today. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 1/02/2007 06:11:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Allen King joined out on Al. G. Barnes, in Dallas, Texas, in 1922, at age 25. He had almost no experience, but got seasoned rather quickly. Louis Roth was teaching him an act of 12 lionesses when the cage erupted in a hey-rube. Roth was getting the worst of it, when King entered the cage and fought alongside him in a protracted brawl that provided King his baptism-by-fire.

Look for the brief but excellent Homer C. Walton article on King and his short-lived 1942 King Bros. Circus in the Nov.-Dec. 1963 BANDWAGON.

02 January, 2007 14:32

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