Tuesday, August 28, 2012

From Jerry Digney #1


The "Kanine King": Sonny Moore--worked as "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Very funny fast paced act. Calif.-born Sonny and his brothers had top dog acts for years, Sonny performed for everyone including Queen Elizabeth, Ed Sullivan, The Hollywood Palace, etc., was in WWII as an ace dog trainer--Year before RBBB, I toured as announcer for Carden and Johnson; Sonny was on the bill; several memorable times announced him, nowhere to be found! One Sat. afternoon in Springfield, asleep in the dressing room, but he was a hard working guy and very talented, with a long running, crowd pleasing act. The great dog professor passed in 2008, after an illustrious career.

Posted by Buckles at 8/28/2012 09:20:00 AM

2 comments:

John Herriott said...

One of a number of just great dog acts that have been through the years. Seems like the Olate dogs are top of the heap for now and rightfully so. Seems like the influx of Russian dog acts hane died on the vine. What happened? johnny

29 August, 2012 08:56
John Herriott said...

Act was known as "Sonny Moore and his Roustibouts" Believe he invented the fireplug bit with dog running out on hippodrome track. It was a big hit. johnny

29 August, 2012 09:00

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