Anna Henderson and Buster Ray.
I forgot to include this. McLeod County, Minnesota Fair
1929.
"Buster was Rubens Ray's son from a previous marriage and from all accounts a great entertainer, accomplished in singing, dancing and acrobatics. Barbara says she remembers him dancing while playing an accordion.....stop.....do a complete back somersalt and resume playing with hardly missing a note." Buckles |
Friday, January 31, 2014
More Henderson/Ray #1 From Billie schuller
From Grace Swank-Davis
Peggy, Lew, Ruth & Ruth's daughter,
Susan about 1946. As the photo shows, Lew didn't always wear suspenders.
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The Hendersons #2
Ruth, Lew and Peggy.
"The Hendersons and the Rays were great friends back in their Rep Show days to a point where two of my sister in laws Billie and Peggy were named after the Henderson girls.
Billie of course, the mother of Lou Roselle who has an Elephant Empress daughter on the Ringling show today and Peggy McBride, who lives here in Ruskin and was first named "Peggy Lew" and later changed to Peggy Louise."
Buckles
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The Hendersons #5
"I wonder if Peggy ever dreamed she would be doing this on top of an elephant?"
Buckles
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From Chic Silber #1
MSN Money January 29 2014
Feld Entertainment CEO and Chairman Kenneth Feld
is a billionaire
from a business that includes Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Feld and his family own all of Feld
Entertainment
His stake in the company is estimated to be worth
about $1.8 billion
He is the world's second circus industry
billionaire after Guy Laliberte
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
To Gary Hill
Here's the info you inquired about hope you can read it.
We left Venice with the first 17 elephants listed above Feb. 3, 1974
The first 8 were from the Billy Smart Circus, remember they always wanted to walk on the left side of the road.
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Marilyn Miller (From Dave Price)
In case your
readers are too young to recognize the name Marilyn Miller: She was the biggest
of Ziegfeld's singing and dancing stars. Starred in many big Broadway
productions, died at age thirty-seven in 1936.
Here we see her honored by having a cigar named
after her.
The 1949 movie Look for the Silver Lining was the story of her life with June Haver playing Marilyn.
In case your readers are too
young to recognize the name Marilyn Miller: She was the biggest of Ziegfeld's
singing and dancing stars. Starred in many big Broadway productions,
died at age thirty-seven in
1936. Here we see her honored by having a cigar named after
her.
The 1949 movie Look for the Silver Lining was the story of her life with June Haver playing Marilyn. |
From Chic Silber
The coincidence of this story after your mention of
Calder caught my eye
The I Miller Building is diagonally across Times
Square from my office
The air rights were sold & a skyscraper is
going up over it so the
landmarked building has been protected during
construction
The Broads Are Back
Four statues by Alexander
Stirling Calder, unveiled in 1929, depict America’s “best loved actresses,” as
chosen in 1927. The statues have been restored and returned to the I. Miller
Building
Who are America’s four best-loved actresses?
If you
answered Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford and Rosa Ponselle —
admittedly, a long shot — you’re going to be delighted to know that four
diminutive marble statues of these larger-than-life theatrical figures have
returned to their golden niches in the landmark I. Miller Building at Broadway
and West 46th Street.
The statues,
by Alexander Stirling Calder, were unveiled in 1929 and taken away in 2012 to
Forestville, Md., for reconstructive surgery. After I. Miller closed in the
1970s, they were neglected while the once elegant store — “The Show Folks Shoe
Shop Dedicated to Beauty in Footwear,” as it says under the cornice — tumbled
down market, ending up as a T.G.I. Friday’s chain restaurant.
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Physical Fitness! #1
I can't remember when I started walking on a treadmill but it was a 30 minute morning ritual for years. It equaled about a mile, just enough to break a sweat.
But ever since my operation I just haven't felt up it, in fact mulling over the thought of Hillary Clinton in the White House for four years had made the graveyard in Oklahoma look more appealing.
So to revive my interest, my wife came up with this super-duper, streamlined treadmill that took the delivery men almost a half hour to assemble.
Having had only twelve years of schooling I couldn't even figure out how to start it.
Kay and Jamie had to explain everything.
This was the test drive.
(By the way NSA, I was only kidding about Mrs. Clinton.)
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Physical Fitness! #2
Fully equipped with air brakes and turn signals!
The screen provides distance traveled, weather report, news flashes and an occasional porn shot for the lusty jogger.
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Physical Fitness! #3
Having completed a victory lap around the track I lie in repose.
Even my wife's ratty looking little dog appears to be satisfied.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Table Acts #1
As a change of pace.....an assortment of furniture acts.
During a life time of loading and unloading bull tubs, planks, spindles, barrels, etc. I always envied acts that traveled light.
I remember two Canadian brothers who did an excellent knockabout act that only required a table. After arriving in their car few hours before show time they would scout around the building to see if they could locate one.
If nothing turned up they would borrow one out of somebodies office.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A New York Christmas #1
During the winter of 1986-87 we were invited to a Christmas party at the home of Howard and Mary Rower in lower Manhattan.
Here am I with Howard, Alan Slifka (Big Apple Circus Chairman) and Howard's youngest son Sandy.
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A New York Christmas #2
Our hostess Mary Rower, as many of you know, was the daughter of famed American sculptor Alexander Caulder.
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A New York Christmas #3
 This picture taken afterward out on the veranda that included a community courtyard below where Christmas carolers were out in full force. |
A New York Christmas #4
Holton Rower at right, later became a photographer of substance and managed to stage a photo-op in the Big Apple tent at Lincoln Center with our family and "Anna May".
I ran them on the Blog some time ago, quite avant-garde, in black and white.
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A New York Christmas #5
Big Apple Christmas Party.
Mary and Howard Rower, Alan Slifka, Linda Hutes, Michael and Karyn Christiensen and Dalilah.
The bald headed gentleman is the infamous John Lepiarz of "Fish & Oaf" fame.
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