I wonder if this is Hal Silvers.
He once told me that after a night of all night partying, Mr. Mix would sometimes decide to lead the fleet to the next town in his Deusenburg? with the hearty command, "Follow Me!".
One such morning at a fork in the road not far from the lot, they slowly filed past his car, half submerged in a small lake with Mr. Mix sitting upright still clutching the steering wheel and gazing out from beneath a wilted cowboy hat.
Sort of an Omen of things to come.
Buckles
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
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If this is Hal Silvers then in
his later years he was known as
Hubert Castle who was a leading
producer of big Shrine Shows
The name Silver is all that suggests the wire-walker I worked for. The wardrobe depicted here is not of the Hal Silvers act--which began with a rumpled tuxedo for his staggering drunk opening. Then he threw a back somersault, throwing off the tux and descending to the wire in a flared shirt and tights. An Okie, he was born James Albert Hal Smith, and took the name Silvers to get work from the Jewish booking agents during the Depression. He went from the Mix show to 4 seasons as Hubert Castle, a Center Ring solo, renamed as a "discovery" by John Ringling North. He made the cover of LIFE magazine, in 1941. I believe he was on Mix in '37.
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