Buckles Blog: #12 Elephant Acts!

Monday, October 09, 2017

Lee Keener with the Tony Diano Elephants.

Chic Silber said...: This might be that damned

old DC Armory (no blackouts

for any matinees); 09 October, 2017 10:20
Chic Silber said...: Likely not very long before

Tommy's broken left ivory; 09 October, 2017 10:22
Roger Smith said...: Mary (Mrs. Hubert) Castle hated black for circus wardrobe, but as I stood with her one show in Ft. Wayne, she openly admired the fine appearance Lee Keener cut in this outfit.; 09 October, 2017 18:40
Chic Silber said...: For several of the early Feld years

Irvin wouldn't allow black used in

any prop or costume design much to

the annoyance of Don Foote until I

took a chance on painting the gear

& undersides of the Happiness Train

BLACK & Don said I'd never get away

with it As it then happened Irvin

very reluctantly came to understand

that the contrast & the hiding power

was worth allowing it (Don thanked me)

Over the next many years black worked

as we all came to see; 09 October, 2017 19:04

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