Sunday, September 07, 2014

Elephant Acts #1


Pete and Norma five "Mary", "Maude", "Norma",  "Bessie" and "Konti".

8 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Did any (or maybe all) of these

end up on the Beatty Show as I

recall several of these names

Chic Silber said...


Weren't these the wedding gift of

Ben Davenport to his daughter when

she married Pete Cristiani

Chic Silber said...


Looks like Barbara & Rex maybe in

Chicago

Ole Whitey said...

The Beatty-Cole show bought the five-act the inter of 1959-1960. Steve Fanning came over with them. For some reason Konti was called Bonnie for a time.

Chic Silber said...


Could that name have been tribute

to Walter Kernan's wife (at least

until he died in 62) Bonnie sold

her interest to Art Concello late

in 65 & he brought many changes

& some new talent in 66 but gave

up the good fight & cashed in at

the end of that season


Chic Silber said...


I think it was Rex that changed it

back to Konti when he took over

Chic Silber said...


Where were Oscar's elephants from

Mr.Lee said...

when I was on the King show the girls were Sid,, ola ..and Konti..