Monday, July 05, 2010

The Clarke Family #1


Scan13044, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 7/05/2010 07:14:00 AM

8 comments:

Richard Reynolds said...

This is a photo from 1943. The Two Jesters Steam calliope, shown here, was with the show in ’43 but not 1944.

05 July, 2010 12:10
Buckles said...

Richard, how un-cavalier!
You have just made Miss Clarke a year older than presumed.
Hardly the behavior of a gentleman of the Old South!

05 July, 2010 12:25
Jackie LeClaire said...

I am not an Circus Historian, but from my experience, most circus programs had little to do whith exactly what was on the show the year of the program. Lots of clown photos on the covers were not even on the show that year. Naturally, the cover photo might be a photo taken the year before. I am wondering what that had to do with Ernestines age? I was on the show with her 44, 45 and 46. In fact while practicing, rigging hanging from the end quarter poles, Ernestine was practicing whith Polly Bear helping, when I fell about 30 feet missing holding a back kip up and coming down on an angle into the grass and dirt as the seats had not been set up. Polly ran over with Ernestine and they picked me up. I was not hurt, but very embarassed. We talked about that so much, when we met later in life. Jackie

05 July, 2010 13:22
Jackie LeClaire said...

Heavens, I just remembered. It was Parley,not Polly. Well, it's been a long time. Loved them both and Ernestine's mother and would vist them every year when the show played Los Angeles. Now I have forgotten the name of the town they lived in. Surely some one else will. Jackie

05 July, 2010 13:34
Chic Silber said...

It seems to follow (even today)

that you would utilize photos

from previous years to be able

to get material printed in time

05 July, 2010 15:07
Richard Reynolds said...

I’m now about to think that this photo was indeed taken in 1944, not on the road, but in Sarasota during rehearsals

In 1944 RBBB departed from tradition and instead of going to the Garden to iron out the kinks that was done mostly at winter quarters. That necessitated an early start. The reason was the staging of the complete 1944 show in Sarasota with two performances on March 26. It was a charity benefit deal and drew 25,000.

This photo of Jacobs and Ernestine could have been taken during rehearsals with enough time to make it onto the cover of the program.

The presence of the Two Jesters threw me because I knew it was not on the 1944 show but it was indeed right there in quarters during the winter of 1943-44.

The kicker is the pose of Jacobs offering the rose. That was a special in the 1944 show. That year he followed her around the track bowing here and there while offering her the flower. Ernestine was 22 years old that season.

05 July, 2010 17:09
Buckles said...

The Baers lived on Billmor St. in Tarzana, California.
He said when shopping for a home saw "Bill Moore" he knew they had found the right place.

05 July, 2010 21:22
Roger S. said...

What happened to the comments?

07 July, 2010 03:05

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