Wednesday, August 26, 2015

More Clowns #14


2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


The Journal was our afternoon paper

back when we had 2 very worthwhile

daily publications but nowadays

after our primary Herald Tribune

has been sold 3 times & brought to

it's current desperate state with

young illiterate interns running it

our best print news is a free weekly

All very sad for a cultural community

Chris Berry said...

Worth noting that Emmett Kelly left Ringling-Barnum at the start of the 1956 season when AGVA and the Teamsters set up a picket-line at Madison Square Garden. The circus was at the Garden for a 40 day run in 1956, and it was picketed every day except for a five-day break by a court order. Also interesting that the Garden electricians and other craft unions did NOT honor the picket line, saying that they were employees of Madison Square Garden, not Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey. The public pretty much ignored the picket line too. According to Michael Burke, who was executive director in early 1956, the show grossed two-million dollars during the New York run, almost as much as they made at the Garden in 1955.