Buckles,
I ran across this ad in Billboard a couple weeks ago.
Bob
"Actually this is Dutch's second wife Dorey (Doris?).
This followed a bitter divorce that included a law suit as to who had the rights to the title "Swing And Sway The Orton Way".
Dutch not only won but Gracie was forbidden to use the Orton name should she continue on as an aerialist.
Must have had a Hell of a lawyer."
Buckles
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
From Bob Cline
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I might add that years later they had a sway pole act on the Ringling Show that Bobby Gibbs called "Swing and Sway the Wong Way!"
For those that are keeping any records of such, this ad was found in the Billboard's April 9, 1949 issue on page 108.
Yes Bobby was right as our dear friend of many years and just recently deceased, Carl Wong, did habve a breakaway sway pole on RB
Please help as I got lost a few
days ago trying to follow names
Were Dutch & Tex the same fellow
Years later Carl Wong did a sway
pole act that could have used the
same slogan rightfully
After Carl left performing his
daughter Kim Sue (now Valla) &
J P Theron worked the 2 poles
Carl spent the next 31 years as
a union stagehand in Texas with
the Dallas Symphony
Both Dutch and Tex were Orton show employees who married into the family.
Tex to my Aunt Grace and Dutch (Vern Lidke) to Uncle Miles daughter Gracie.
I have trouble keeping it straight.
Thanks I feel much better about
my confusion & as they holler at
many sports events You can't tell
the players without the program
Wasn't Carl married to Joanne
Wilson at 1 time
Hmm married into the show owner's
family sounds familiar like GG &
a few others I won't mention
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