Wednesday, September 19, 2012

From Buckles #6



6 comments:

John Herriott said...

The famous Tom Mix in his heydays. Highest paid circus performer of all time. On the great Floto show before his Tom Mix cIRCUS

Roger Smith said...

When Dave Price and I visited Peru in '95, we met a man named Richardson, who told us Mix used to sit outside his wagon, or private rail car, and people could wave as they went by, but were not welcome to approach Mix any closer. This same Mr. Richardson also advised he had never known Clyde Bay-tee, but was good friends with Clyde Bee-tee.

Buckles said...

Movie actress Shirley McLain"s real name was Beatty but in an interview she said she changed because all her life she had to keep correcting people.

JIM ELLIOTT said...

I was in Peru yesterday. Pick-up the Side Show ticket box I bought at the Paul Kelly Auction in 1997, which my friend, Tim Bessianno has stored for me.

Anonymous said...

But Shirley's brother got along using Warren Baytee, probably less eccentric and/or particular than his sis.

Paul

Roger Smith said...

Another respected actor making do with Bay-tee, is Ned Beatty.

On Clyde Beatty's "mystery guest" appeatance on WHAT'S MY LINE?, host John Daly introduced "Circus owner and wild animal trainer Clyde Bay-tee." The panel hadn't guessed him, and the supremely erudite Bennett Cerf, publisher at Random House, inquired, "But isn't it Warren Bay-tee, and Clyde Bee-tee?" Our guy simply smiled and said, "It's Bay-tee," and Cerf stood corrected.