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15 comments:
George Rosell's Car
How many of these cars were there
I believe Fay Alexander's "Al's
Lemonzeen" was originally Cook's
Chic: I don't know the count, either. Fay's was great, aided by his ability to take highly athletic pratfalls. Rex Young had one with us on Castle that sold well, but Rex told me he was beginning to feel the effects of the falls he took.
As for small cars, Lou Jacobs had the classic, the full act being featured by DeMille. But Chester "Bobo" Barnett also had one that couldn't have been much bigger than Lou's. Perhaps Pat Cashin can give us more about these cars.
Lou Jacobs, Chester Bobo Barnet's,
and Kinko's Car. The three were all out of the same mold.I think I have seen one more of these.
The real workings of Fay's car
were handled extremely well by
his wife Rosie who did the work
in a cramped compartment with
very limited visibility
That was probably similar to
the other cars as well
Lou's car was not "molded" but
hand custom built
The other cars might have been
patterned after his
To; Chic Silber
Would you know who built the three little cars. Lou's Bobo's and Kinko's?
A long long time ago I was going to build one of this type and I was quite surprised in the similarity of these cars back when.
My memory is not sharp on this subject, please enlighten.
I only know that Lou built his
little car as well as many of
his other early props
Some years back I saw many of
them at Dolly & Pedro's which
happens to be only a few blocks
from me
Dolly would be the one to ask
about these details and you
could reach her through Circus
Sarasota @ circussarasota.org
To;Chic Silber
Watching the Movie GSOE, as it is on tv tonight while I'm typing this. I am conceding. Lou's car is gas powered and built out of sheet metal, circa(1952).
The ones I am referring to are made out of a mold. In the late 70's in Venice during rehearsals, there was a small car being used at the time that I was told was Lou's old car. That is the one that I am referring to. My information must be off. The one from Bobo and Kinko also the one I saw at Venice back then were cut out of the same cloth. They were all three battery powered; Unless Lou had a second car??
Sorry I can't be more help
I was in Venice for rehearsals
throughout the 70s but I don't
remember these cars mentioned
As I said it would be Dolly
that would know if her dad
had another car built or not
In my original entry asking
about the number of cars I
was refering to the jalopies
It was Roger Smith that first
mentioned the tiny cars
To JC -
I watched the movie the GSOE with our 15 year old daughter, Elizabeth.
She had seen the movie countless times before, this time I added a little running commentary:
+the long shots of "Sebastian" who was Fay Alexander
+that Fay was Johnny Herriott's barber for many years
+that Antoinette was the same lady in the photo that daughter, Margaret, gave me for Father's Day.
+that Irish juggler, Veronica Martell, was retired and lived nearby and visited our Yankee Doodle Circus several times. She did the the ball juggling to the floor in the movie.
++ Also, told her to remember what blood type Brad needed ---- for circus trivia when among circus folks.
I watched the previous two hours that featured a special on Cecil B. DeMille; most interesting.
When the movie played Radio City Music Hall it ran for 11 weeks, 5 times a day with a seating capacity in excess of 5,000 per showing.
Have some more peanuts, Harry.
Michael -
I watched it again myself this weekend and I believe that it will be shown again this Sunday on TCM. I went to IMDB.COM, which is a great online movie site, and clicked on Full Cast. There you'll see most of the names of the show people who appeared in the film. ~frank
Can anyone tell me what part Arthur Burson played in GSOE? Need info for family history book; he is a distant relative.
Dianne -
According to imdb.com, Arthur Burson is listed as playing himself. In most cases this listing would indicate that he was either a Ringling performer or crew member.
Good luck on your search! ~frank
Frank, thank you for your reply. We know that Arthur was a wire walker and later, after a fall, became a clown. Would like to be able to identify him in the movie.
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