Buckles Blog: From Gee Gee's Albums #5

Monday, August 03, 2009

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Gerard Soules

Chic Silber said...: "Poodles Of Paree" on Ice Capades; 03 August, 2009 18:06
Dick Flint said...: Soules, of course, had a single trap act and I believe was with the US circus troupe Concello organized (under the RBBB logo) for Morris Chalfen to take to Moscow.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 03 August, 2009 19:37
Buckles said...: I trouped with Gerry on the Polack Show one season.
A true gentleman
He deserved a better fate.; 03 August, 2009 19:42
Chic Silber said...: His finish trick was a swinging

heel catch from a long rope

trapeze very similar to the one

that Elvin did some years later

His demise was gruesome; 03 August, 2009 21:17
Anonymous said...: I understood that Elvin used Gerard's trapeze. I only watched him (Elvin) once. After that I looked away. It was too much for me.
Bob Kitto; 06 August, 2009 19:41
Chic Silber said...: Of all the many terrific acts

Elvin has mastered over the years

his trap routine was by far the

most spectacular and it won the

Gold Clown award from Monte Carlo

Elvin & Gerry became friends but

it was not the same rigging

I am proud to say that he has

been a good friend to me (as

well as members of his family)

for more than 40 years; 06 August, 2009 22:31

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