Monday, May 03, 2010

St. Joseph, Missouri #1


Scan12916, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"There's always something of interest around the "lot"
as shown by this set of pictures at Cole Brothers Circus
by News-Press Staff Photographer Lewis C. Shady."

This spread was in the Sunday Morning Paper 7/27/47.
The clown is Billie Burke.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 5/03/2010 06:21:00 AM

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

I would not have known this was Billie Burke. This shows the versatility of the real pros. On Gil Gray, in later years, Burke had a classic Auguste makeup, and billed hilself as the "Best Dressed Clown." In the '50s, we've seen Lou Jacobs convert his familiar Auguste to whiteface, and Paul Jerome switching between hobo and whiteface for designated photo ops. Pat Valdo sometimes had selected clowns alter their makeups for the camera so the show would appear to have more clowns.

03 May, 2010 16:52

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