Wednesday, March 09, 2011

From Chic Silber #1


EASTMAN1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Good morning Buckles

I have found a few photos of the renovated

Eastman Theater in Rochester NY.

Chic

Posted by Buckles at 3/09/2011 06:37:00 AM

3 comments:

Heidi Herriott said...

Hi,
I wanted to make this a seperate post but can't figure out how! Anyhow, the following question came to me through the internet. Hopeful that one of you may be able to provide some info. Pretty interesting - read on...

This guy from the UK writes "My great auntie recently passed away but over the years passed on some sketchy knowledge about my great grandad being a circus clown - An acrobatic clown.

The details are sketchy but we do know his surname would have been
ISAACS and that he travelled to the USA with either FRED KARNOS CIRCUS or BARNHAM AND BAILEY - He travelled over to the USA with Charlie Chaplin.
of course he may have had a stage name which we do not know.

We also know that my great grandfather travelled back to the USA on a passenger boat which was torpedoed of the coast of ireland. This was either the LUCITANIA or the MAURITANIA. My grandad was one of the survivors.

09 March, 2011 07:49
Dick Flint said...

Fred Karno was a very famous British music hall comedian and contemporary of both Chaplin and Stan Laurel--and Karno worked with both.

An good place for questions of this type about distant ancestors supposedly in the circus business is the Circus Historical Society's "Circus History Message & Discussion Board" at http://www.circushistory.org/Query.htm
Questions can be sent to
circushistory@gmail.com and Heidi, you might suggest that this guy email the CHS website.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

09 March, 2011 21:45
Anonymous said...

Dick: Is there anything you don't know or at least have a frame of reference about ? If so it's gotta be a darn short list.

In awe,

Paul Gutheil

PS Hi Heidi and family

10 March, 2011 11:37

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)