Thursday, July 31, 2014

1972 Miller-Johnson #3


So this is the theme she finally came up with The Slave Trader and the Captured Elephant Empress!

Posted by Buckles at 7/31/2014 06:50:00 AM

5 comments:

BARBARA WOODCOCK said...

In the beginning Buckles insisted that we could never make a living with just one elephant and one leopard. But I had this dream, and I just knew that it would work. Buckles said that we would not get the money I was asking. I told him that Anna May Nirvana and I would just stay home, and he could just go back out with Sid Kellner. We were not getting the money with Sid that I was asking. In fact at that time they were not paying what I was asking for a five act, that I was asking for just Anna May and Nirvana. So I could understand Buckles doubt. But I just had this feeling. This was the only time we ever auditioned the act. We started out with me in chains, & Buckles with whips. We would do the cover and off came the chains then the whirl and off came the torn up skirt. By the finish of the act I had the whips. Some one was quoted as saying "A little something for everyone." Now as they say the rest is history. O yes Ben was in that with us doing the teeterboard. But he had to finish high school. Germaine said he was okay with the money and all....BUT... he needed the teeterboard. Buckles comes back to me with this news. ( I DID NOT DO TEETERBOARD.) It took two seconds for my answer. Yes I would do the teeterboard. That was why it was so bad. That is a long story, of the training of the board. I call it my frog jump.....Barbara....

31 July, 2014 20:40
Paul Gutheil said...

Barbara, now that you're back. . .
Don't you dare go away!!

01 August, 2014 00:35
Cindy Potter said...

HI BARBARA!
WE MISSED YOU!
:-)
CINDY POTTER

01 August, 2014 16:24
Roger Smith said...

BARBARA: I just wrote of the professional generosity of Pat Anthony, a quality you shared with Kim Baer. She still has the duplicate you gave her of this zebra-pattern wardrobe you're wearing here. In my experience, it's rare that a performer goes so far as to help another look better in the ring. But you did. Kim gets misty-eyed remembering that moment with you in the dressing room.

03 August, 2014 18:13
BARBARA WOODCOCK said...

Kim was a delight to work with. My Mother taught me to help any performer, or someone that had an interest in our work. Gee Gee was another performer that went out of her way to help a young performer. She would loan her costumes to me. And they were the first grown up costumes I had ever worn. I was thrilled. And it gave me my first leg up to make my own costumes. I loved both ladies and miss them very much. It is sweet of Kim to mention me. I have been so very lucky to meet, and get to know so many wonderful people along the way in my lifetime. Diane & Paul Gutheil were among the people I was lucky enough to call my friends. And there are so many. I don't have the paper or ink to list them all. I am so lucky indeed. And I do include you Roger & Kim. I am so very lucky......Barbara....

05 August, 2014 03:23

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