Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Renowned Florenz Troupe!


Scan11164, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

This picture is undated but doesn't look like our days with Kelly-Miller in the early 1950's. Maybe Biller Bros. or even King Bros.
In any event, # 3,4 and 5 from left are Flo, Belmonte and Gracie.

Posted by Buckles at 1/10/2009 06:19:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mornin' Buckles.. Tommy Bently is in that lineup as well !

10 January, 2009 07:25
Buckles said...

Belmonte Florenz if you please!

10 January, 2009 07:31
Anonymous said...

The Florenz troupe in its day was one of the great teeterboard acts and long on the old Barnum & Bailey in the first decade or two of the 20th century. It was the subject of a Pete Smith newsreel in the 1930s titled (if I recall correctly without checking) "Knip Ups." What they did pales in comparison to what we saw on Ringling in the 1970s with their incredible display of 3 rings of eastern European teeterboard acts but in their day the Florenz troupe was a great, classy act that often worked in tuxedos. It would be nice to know more about who composed the act in its last years as we see here.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

10 January, 2009 10:36
Buckles said...

This was a tight wire act put together as a house act on Barnett Bros. Circus in the 1930's and included over the years such people as Norma and Helele Rogers, Ursaline MacIntosh and Eddie Hendricks to mention a few.
I think some of the people in this picture are from the Coriell family.

10 January, 2009 10:57
Anonymous said...

Dick: Did the Florenz family you mention include the Florenz who did the somersaulting car act on the Cole show.

Also was Al Florenz the clown of that family?

10 January, 2009 17:46
Unknown said...

Alfred Florenz eas my Great Grandfather,when he was unable to perform as an acrobat yes he was billed as the worlds greatest clown.

31 August, 2018 00:46

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