Buckles Blog: Beatty-Cole #2

Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Anonymous said...: looks like Bob Top's skating platform??; 11 October, 2008 11:18
Anonymous said...: Right- Bob Top and Lauren. Good act- very fast routine.

The Count introduced than as "From the Tip Top of the Big Top- Skating in the sky- Bob Top and Lauren."

Or words very close to that.; 11 October, 2008 14:57
Anonymous said...: I always thought it was Bob Top and Edna...Am I going senile??; 12 October, 2008 00:34
Anonymous said...: Jim, you're younger than either Ole Whitey or myself so don't scare us into thinking we're senile! The 1961 program I have (signed by Beatty to me!) has "Bob Top and Lauren, 'Skaters In The Sky' High Up in The Big Top, On A Tiny Platform, Behold An Adagio, Acrobatic Thriller On Roller Skates." However, to ease your worries about senility, I think in later years, perhaps with a different partner, it was Bob Top and Edna. Us old folks have trouble remembering the more recent stuff.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 12 October, 2008 08:07
Anonymous said...: The man in the coveralls with his back to us is the late long-time rigger, John Schweitzer. He would always draw a crowd of the workingmen when he was working with intricate rope and cable splicing. He told them that's how he learned, by sidling up and watching his predecessors.; 13 October, 2008 19:31

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