Buckles Blog: Odds and Ends #7

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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Chic Silber said...: Are these girls any relation to

the Hunt family of the Hunt Bros

Circus that was from South Jersey

And does anyone know how to get

in touch with Marsha; 24 January, 2010 10:38
Dick Flint said...: The Hunt twins were no relation. They were showgirls on RBBB from the mid-1930s on. Bonnie married Walter Kernan after WWII who was later to partner with McCloskey and others to acquire the Beatty show. Kernan died about 1961 but I do not know when his widow passed away. Does anyone know about twin Gloria? They were popular with circus fans and show up in a lot of backlot fan photos including some, I believe, in that whoppingly oversize and highly priced $200 tome that came out in 2008.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 24 January, 2010 14:57
Chic Silber said...: Thanks Dick

I knew Bonnie Kernan and I met

her sister at a Christmas party

at Frank McClosky's swanky joint

on Via Tuscany in Winter Park

many years ago but had no idea

that they were twins (unless

there was another sister)

I would still love to get in

touch with Marsha Hunt who is

Harry's daughter; 24 January, 2010 17:18
JIM ELLIOTT said...: Chic;
If you get in touch with Freddie Vonderhiede, he will be able to put you in touch with Marsha Hunt.
Buckles has my phone number, so get that from him, call me and I'll put you in touch with Freddie.; 24 January, 2010 21:31

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