Monday, April 21, 2014

1940 Rowe Bros. #3


Peggy Sylvester, Raymond Duke, Ketchel, Karl Vogel and Shorty Sylvester.

8 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

I knew Raymond Duke in the later year when he was booking for Fisher Bros Circus.
Harry in Texas

JIM ELLIOTT said...

For those who may not know, Raymond was B.K. Silverlakes father.

Roger Smith said...

Peggy and Shorty Sylvester were prominent on the Beatty show for several years. Peggy became a sort of mother figure for the workingmen, holding some of their pay for them against long winters of no pay in Winter Quarters.

Tony Greiner said...

I was wrong. It was Ralph Duke I worked with when he was a booking agent. Brothers?

John Herriott said...

No relation. Ralf Duke has a large family of daughters and son Paul,[elephant guy]. Daughters have been quite active in circus biz.

A n0ote. If you remember the slaying of BKs mother and sister by a stalking working man on circus. Of the Raymond Duke family

j faye said...

B.K.'s mother was Emma Duke she and Myrna Silverlake's daughter Janice Ruth were murdered in Mel's and B.k's home in the valley in Texas in the fall of 1975. J.R. was about six weeks shy of her sixteenth birthday. It was a working man, who they thought J.R surprised when she and Joe Silverlake came home from the movie.J.R screamed,Emma got out of bed and he shot her too. Joe had gone to his folks trailer.

j faye said...

Emma Duke was B.K.'s mother, she and Myrna's daughter Janice Ruth were killed in Mel's and B.K.'s house in the valley in Texas in the fall of 1975.J.R. was just shy of her sixteenth birthday, she and Joe Silverlake had just returned from a movie. It was a working man, they thought J.R. surprised him,she yelled, Emma got out of bed and he shot her too.Joe had gone to his folks trailer also on the property.

Paul Binder said...

Buckles

My mind is a little foggy today, as well. So I had to look up the guy in the photo with Delilah. I think it is the actor, Peter Boyle.

all the best

Paul