Buckles Blog: 2009 Calendar #164

Friday, September 20, 2013

Clown Felix Adler (left) and friend, RBBB, 1945.

Buckles said...: Something wrong here!
Jackie, is this Adler?; 20 September, 2013 05:29
Chic Silber said...: Not Adler's makeup; 20 September, 2013 12:31
Anonymous said...: It looks like Felix, BUT the mouth is all wrong to start with.

Paul; 20 September, 2013 14:24
JACKIE said...: It is Doc. Holland, a dentist and great circus clown fan. The other clown is I think some local made up. I will check it out. That was 1945, a web sitters costume for the aerial web number. There were quite a few first of may clowns at that time. Doc really treated all the clowns to dentist work and also gifts made from the gold from teeth he pulled. Yes, Chic, you are correct. Something wrong for sure. Jackie LeClaire; 20 September, 2013 22:43
Chic Silber said...: They wouldn't have had some yokel

sitting web would they Jackie ?; 21 September, 2013 00:38
JACKIE said...: Well, they needed a lot of web sitters, and I am sure a lot of them had very little training. Everyone sat web, including Lou Jacobs, and my father and any other performers they could get their hands on.. Yes, you can even talk today to girl web aerialist of that era and the will tell you, it was pretty tough with some of the sitters as they had no idea of performing techniques.
Jackie LeClaire; 21 September, 2013 13:00

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