Friday, January 26, 2007

More DeMille #1 (From Dave Price)

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Posted by Buckles at 1/26/2007 11:42:00 PM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Woodcock, when was Joe frisco Sr. on RBBB? In the street parade scene, there is a handler walking elephants, who is a walk identical to that of Joe Frisco III. Just wondering

26 January, 2007 23:57
Buckles said...

The man in this picture looks like Vernon Duffy, elephants are "Josky" and "Tony".
For sure it's Bob Wild in the next picture with "Sparks Myrtle". He even had a little dialogue early in the movie while scrubbing her with a push broom.

27 January, 2007 00:13
Anonymous said...

Joe Frisco Sr. was still a punk teenager when he was on Ringling from about 1943-45 or 46. He was later with Biller Bros in the 1948-49 period, according to info he gave me in an interview in Sarasota in 2000. He started out as a horse groom and later switched to elelphants. Still wet behind the ears, he decided in Louisville to take a Ringling elelphant behind the barn and have a "heart-to-heart" with a bull that had been giving him problems. The next day, the auntie of the herd pinned Joe Sr. against the wall inside one of the elephant cars. Had the wooden slats of the rail car not given way, Joe swears he'd probably not be alive today to tell the story. It was obvious to him that the offended bull communicated her problem with "auntie," who promptly disciplined Joe. As it was, he fell to the siding bed and escaped with cuts and bruised ribs.

27 January, 2007 10:00

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