Sunday, August 17, 2008

Chas. B. Wier Elephants #1


Scan10613, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

This rakish looking gentleman is Dan Darrow posing with "Wier's Baby Elephants" "Maude", "Cutie" and "Trixie" in the early 1920's.

My dad sometimes talked about having a clown elephant in our act, he explained that you slide a piece of piano wire into the outer seam of the collar to make it stand out.

Posted by Buckles at 8/17/2008 07:05:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My Dad told me as a young boy on what a great presentationj the Weir elephants were as presented by the handsome Don Darragh. I believe I noted this spelling of his name in later publication. Or maybe it was Dan Darragh.

17 August, 2008 08:53
Buckles said...

It was Darrough.

17 August, 2008 10:42

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