Monday, July 22, 2013

AMY BLASTS BELLO! (From Paul Gutheil)


Somehow I managed to scan this one and hopefully you will get it.

"After being seated at the table, the waiter (Bello) would enter with a large menu, show it to her, exit and return with Champagne. He would  read the label, hand her the bottle, which she then placed in her mouth and supposedly finished off to the dismay of the ringmaster.
After handing me the empty bottle, she would reach into the ice bucket and give Bello this shot.
Paul might have taken this at dress rehearsal because I remember they immediately started cutting back the water in the bucket until it became more of a spray.
She would then tip over the table, stagger around the ring and collapse but most of that was eliminated after complaints from our urbane clientele that Alcoholism was a problem to be taken seriously."
Buckles

3 comments:

cirbly said...

Excellent timing by the photographer! Great picture.

Anonymous said...

Yep! Dress in Walden, glad I was there...sure do miss the Woodcock Troupe, but we did get in a lot of wonderful seasons, didn't we!!

Paul

Buckles said...

In my Dad's dinner table number, "Lydia" would carry the whiskey bottle as she staggered around then after laying down, "Anna May" would enter wearing a Policeman's hat and carrying a bat and whack her a few times before leading her out by the trunk, crawling on her belly.