Sunday, June 26, 2011

1957 A Busy Year! #7


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4 comments:

Lane Taburt said...

Buckles: Is this Joe Applegate?

Buckles said...

Yes it is.
He was a lot of fun. We shared a table in the cook house and Joe would entertain me by reciting passages from various dramatic shows he had toured with.
My favorite was from "10 Nights In A Bar Room".
After entering with a flourish he would announce, "After a long and tedious trip by stage coach, here am I in the happy village of Cedarville!"
They don't make entrances like that anymore.

Ole Whitey said...

A lot of those old rep show bills began with a character coming to the footlights and explaining the situation to the audience.

Plunketts, Brunks, Herb & Helen Walters, Ross & Margaret McKay, the Beers & Barnes families, the Juggling Hendersons and many others came to circus from a rep background.

Joe Applegate joined Cristiani while we were in Los Angeles in 1959. I don't think he had been out since the Beatty railer closed in 1956. I believe he was later on Beatty-Cole for spell.

Roger Smith said...

Applegate had a speaking role in RING OF FEAR, standing there with his Pepsi, talking to Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez ("The actor so nice they named him twice".)