Polack Bros. Circus 1965/ "Baby Stella"

I received a lenghty message from Annonymous regarding a lady we trouped with on the Polack Show named Stella Howell but I never could figure out which picture the comments were related to. She was a very nice person, in fact I named this little elephant after her. While playing Medinah Temple in Chicago we would stable the elephants at the Armory at night. During the day they stood on a ramp just off stage and sometimes while we were in the ring performing, Mrs. Howell would show up with a large bag of produce I could see her distributing the vegetables equally where each elephant stood. As the act neared the end she would be frantic swapping carrots and apples back and forth. I never had the heart to tell her that the first elephant back to the picket line "Jean" would swoop them all down to the bottom of the ramp and have most of it eaten by the time we got the headpieces off.