Tuesday, April 05, 2016

#14 Beatty-Cole


8 comments:

Chic Silber said...

10th & 11th girls look like

Tina Storey & Nita Bale

Chic Silber said...


Canvas likely from Butch Troyer

at A1 Tents (successor to Leaf)

Butch had been Leif's foreman

Cindy Potter said...

Let's see, from left to right...
Iris, Blanca, Margarita, Mirna, Narda,(???) Eileen L., Lillian, Freda, Tina (???) and Eileen H.!
:-)
Cindy Potter

Roger Smith said...

Our Beatty show gals have it all over similar shots of lineups of the bow-wows of the '20s.

And yes, the one blonde is Tina Storey. She was/is a heroine in the true tradition. She took a buster in Merritt Island, in '81. She went home for a long recovery, and was re-schooled by La Norma. Like Mabel Stark coming back on John Robinson after a 2-tiger attack, Tina came back, hung her rigging, and worked her full act the rest of the season. There were tears of pride for Tina all over the lot.

Chic Silber said...


I should have recognized

a few of the Logan girls

Thanks Cindy

Chic Silber said...


Tina is Willy Storey's younger

daughter & her older sister

Reneé had run the Cole Bros

DeLand office for many years

Sadly that office is closed

Roger Smith said...

As we know by now (Wednesday the 6th), the office is closed, and the phone is disconnected. The Cole show is no more.

Chic Silber said...


At least the Cole website

is back online kinda like

a finish trick that ends

with Jack Ryan's famous

"May All Your Days ...."