Wednesday, June 27, 2007

From Richard Flint


Downie clown band truck001, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Here it is. This photo should go with the text you ran as photo #1
suggesting viewers enlarge it to better see the crude wooden cab.

Dick Flint

Posted by Buckles at 6/27/2007 08:57:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the clown on the right (with the trombone in the air) has hair and looks like joe sherman. could this be joe, or would he have been too young for this pix?

thanx!

note: greatly appreciate buckles' web blog....brings back many good circus memories.

27 June, 2007 21:43
Dick Flint said...

Joe Sherman (Joe Vanni) would have been 14 years old when this picture was taken in 1927. He did not enter show business until 1932 when he was 19 and answered an ad looking for an experienced acrobat to fill an opening in the Kenneth Waite Trio (the third member being Chester Sherman). During the second half of the 1920s, Waite and Chester Sherman were with Robbins Bros.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

28 June, 2007 19:02

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