Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Mickey Mouse Circus #19


MMC-19, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Serenado, the musical horse, dances and plays chimes

Posted by Buckles at 12/01/2010 05:44:00 AM

6 comments:

Bill Powell said...

The Delbosque family preesnted this horse, Serenado with great elegance.

Adolph performed with his daughter, Clara, who acted as an assistant and styled the act. We performed with them on the Pollack show in 1960.

I recall that Clara later married an officer in the Air Force and he was stationed in Ft. Worth at Carsewell Air Force base. I believe he held the rank of Colonel.

We were invited to her house for dinner around 1966. The house was quite a step up from our meager home in southeast Dallas. We lived not far from Gil Grey's winter quarters and the Zoppe/Hall compound. I was quite impressed with the elegance of Clara and her impressive military husband. They seemed like a nice couple and seemed to have much success in life.

01 December, 2010 08:05
Mike Naughton said...

Col Herriott -
If my memory is correct, you have the musical bells that Serenado played?

01 December, 2010 11:52
Wade G. Burck said...

Mike,
Thanks for reminding the Col. I am hoping he is going to list me as beneficiary of those bells plus his personalized by Jorgen Christenson autographed photo to put in the Tanglefoot Tack Room and Museum, that I am working on now.

Wade Bu

01 December, 2010 13:38
Mike Naughton said...

Wade,
I suspect that the Colonel already has you on a very special list.
Mike

PS I have several sets of worn out poppers that the Colonel made for me out of dental floss. I have them in a zip lock bag with a written description. Funny how some things become special mementos.

01 December, 2010 19:29
Loretta Kemsley said...

As a teen, I met Adolph when he was at Glenn Randall's on Sherman Way. My dad had a carnival and we lived not far from there.

I was wondering if anyone knows when he came to America and what he did in Europe before he arrived here?

I'd appreciate any info you can provide.

lkemsley@moondance.org

11 April, 2011 01:02
johnny herriott said...

We were very close friends with Adolf, Mary and Clara. Mary was a cousin of the Loyal family riding act and when they came to America she and huasband Adolf came along. She was in the act and believe bAdolf [who was already an accomplidshed horse trainer] "kept up" the horses in the act. She also did a nice foot juggling act. Adolf went on his own as a trainer-presenter [Ringling, Cole, etc.] and was a charismatic showman in the ring. He finally trained the beautifuleranado act to grat success and was close friends fo many years with Glenn Randall and family. After his death the bells changed hands but are now in moth balls with the Herriott Family and no telling when the time comes there may be another "Serenado". I know the whole act quite well having been Disneyland MM club circus and a number of seasdons together on Gil Gry and worked the act with Clara for a week when Adolf had pneumonia. We were very close all thru the years. He was a fine trainer, great showman and very nice people. He was "high strung" and I always referred to him in a jovial way as "Tornado" Resptfully John Herriott

11 April, 2011 09:16

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