Saturday, March 01, 2008

The Heritage of the Greatest Show on Earth #6


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Samuel Gumpertz

Eric said...

Robert Ringling (who was a featured baritone with the Chicago Opera.) I once read that, after the Hartford Fire, the Ringling family appealed directly to FDR himself to protect Robert from the possibility of going to prison. (The absentee owners of the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston DID go to prison after that establishment burned down with considerable loss of life.) Jim Haley ended up as the fall guy, and while he was in prison, Robert never visited or wrote him.

(I'm assuming that most everyone knows who FDR was.)

Anonymous said...

I believe this is Robert, the son of Charles and Edith Ringling.

Anonymous said...

No, John, it's Robert Ringling