Wednesday, October 25, 2017

#13 Empressi!

Don't know the lady!
.....but the Gent is Ted Svertesky with Sells & Gray Circus!

Posted by Buckles at 10/25/2017 06:34:00 AM

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Goes to show us again, some of our very best showfolks began on the long-lost small shows. They learned from their first day, and over time, they broke in right.

Sells & Gray was the smallest of the Acme/Kit trio, very ably run by the quietly effective gentleman, Mr. Wilson Storey. And the show served a specific purpose beyond bringing the Big Top to the hinterlands. A prime example is my favorite Sells & Gray story. One winter when tax questions became threatening, co-owner Frank McClosky sidled up to Mr. Storey, and muttered, "Willie, don't make any money this year."

I knew more than I was supposed to know about such matters, as it may come as a surprise to many who knew these shows, that my late uncle, John Trenam, owner and head man of Trenam & Trenam law firm of Tampa and Miami, was the top tax lawyer to John Ringling North, Art Concello, and for the "Gang of Four" who owned the Acme/Kit shows. Some of Uncle John's tales will die with me.

25 October, 2017 17:54

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