Sunday, October 07, 2018

SHOWGIRLS 2 #7


Posted by Chic Silber at 10/07/2018 01:10:00 AM

4 comments:

Mr.Lee said...

Rosie Alezander , GeeGee Engesser and I believe LaTosca Cannestrelli...

07 October, 2018 07:57
Roger Smith said...

MR. LEE: Some historian months back ID'd the lady @ R as Bobby Peck. I think it may be her. Stories abounded after the 1950 death of Harriett Beatty that both Dorothy Herbert and Ms. Peck had designs on becoming the next Mrs. Clyde Beatty. But after a long winter of grieving, and even having commanded staffers to sell the show, Beatty returned to the Fairgrounds winterquarters, in Shreveport. Jane Lorraine Abel was a singing comedienne there, starring in the Empire Room of the Washington-Youree Hotel. This being a favored watering hole of the circus crowd, Beatty and Jane inevitably met. They married in mid-season the next year, on June 30, 1951, at the Hotel Leopold, in Bellingham, Washington. Dorothy Herbert became Mrs. A.W. Kinnard, and Bobby Peck became Mrs. McGough.

07 October, 2018 17:06
Roger Smith said...

CORRECTION: Getting back into the trunks, I must correct the idea fielded in 1950 that Bobby Peck had designs on Clyde Beatty. Wrong. She had married circus treasurer William McGough on June 19, 1937. Their union lasted 47 years until his passing. They had one adopted daughter, Michele.

She joined RBBB in 1933, and toured with Hagenbeck-Wallace, Russell Bros., and the Beatty show, before returning to Ringling in 1950. So she was not on the Beatty show that season when Harriett died. She retired from circuses that year, was a stay-at-home mother, and later a legal secretary.

Mrs. McGough was born on December 18, 1908, in Galveston, Texas. A beautiful woman, she was crowned Miss Dallas of 1928. She died of a heart attack at age 88, on April 27, 1997, in Garland, Texas. She is interred with her husband in Grove Hill Memorial Park, in Dallas. (Sources: Find-a-Grave, and The Dallas Morning News.)

08 October, 2018 06:20
Mr.Lee said...

Thanks Roger.. I met Bobby Peck When the C.W.M. Moved the show to Texas for a date. I was sitting outside when this elderly woman walked up and asked if I ever heard of Bobby Peck , I looked and nodded a yes to her at which she proudly said "that's me". She had a bag with several scrap books and photo albums with her and we sat for the afternoon cutting up jackpots. I happily healed her into the big top to watch the show after which we said our goodbyes. I've never seen her again, but I enjoyed the hell out of that day. I was happy to have met her and to make an ol' showbroad feel revered and fussed over.

08 October, 2018 07:40

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