Sunday, July 28, 2013

From Wayne Jackson

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lilli and her late husband Svend, Two wonderful people, two top notch performers. Remember the Platos? They took better care of their cats than a lot people do of their kids.

Paul

Roger Smith said...

Svend was a master builder of animal props. His smaller leopard cages, far from ordinary shifting boxes, were works of art. Back in '75, to prove the old saw of circus performers assured an old age in the poor farm was fading, Ernie McClain told me he was putting some dates together for his own show, and Lilli Ana had quoted him $700 a day.