Tuesday, August 16, 2016

#4 Cat Ladies!


Posted by Buckles at 8/16/2016 05:35:00 AM

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Albina Say was born with the surname Davilia, in Chicago, in 1931, to Harriett Iwicki (the Polish equivalent of Evans). The father, Davilia, was a member of the Latin dance troupe in which Harriett worked in the early years of the Depression. With Albina in tow as a toddler, Harriett joined Hagenbeck-Wallace and married Clyde Beatty in 1933. The couple had no children. Beatty was good to the child, and gave her the best in life, but never formally adopted her. When Harriett died, in 1950, Albina assumed the name Harriett, but still had no entitlement to the Beatty name. After deciding to work a cat act, despite public objections from Clyde Beatty, she billed herself as Harriett Beatty, Jr.

The seat @ C, with the lion, is out of the Clyde Beatty act. It is ID'd by the construction, the braces welded outside the legs, and the length of angle iron welded to this left corner, placed to accommodate the sleeved-in stretch iron. How Beanie came by this seat may remain unknown, but it is one of Beatty's.

17 August, 2016 18:27

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