Buckles Blog: WEB #4

Thursday, October 25, 2018

WEB #4

9 comments:

Chic Silber said...: 1 quadrant of 6 (of 24 total)

109th Edition Red Show (1979); 25 October, 2018 00:52
Chic Silber said...: Webs were dyed red; 25 October, 2018 00:53
Chic Silber said...: I designed & built these

self crating track lights

& the frame lights on the

outriggers between webs; 25 October, 2018 01:14
Chic Silber said...: We had custom special pink

glass roundels made by Kopp

Glass for 1 circuit of the

3 circuit track lights as

requested by Don Foote; 25 October, 2018 01:16
Chic Silber said...: This might be an Eric Beheim photo; 25 October, 2018 01:21
Eric said...: Themed “Circus Can-Can,” the 109th Edition's Aerial Ballet had a decidedly turn-of-the-century Parisian flavor. Following a few bars of La Mareillaise, there was a medley of Offenbach melodies taken from Gaite Parisienne. Center-ring feature Marguerite Michele was introduced with You’ll Find Me At Maxim’s from The Merry Widow. Once the web girls were aloft, the music changed to the song from Moulin Rouge (sung in French by announcer-vocalist Kit Haskett!) The “hair hanging heroics” of Marguerite Michele were accompanied first by the finale from The Merry Wives Of Windsor Overture (Niccolai) and then by the finale from Dance of the Serpents (Boccalari).; 25 October, 2018 17:06
Wade G. Burck said...: When circus lost the large aerial ballets, and turned clown alleys over to the local Shrine nit wit's, we should have seen the writing on the wall, and the eventual demise of what once was. If we are realistic, we can't keep blaming peta and the animal rights movement. The last time there was an aerial production to rival Ringling was Evansville under the guidance of the late great Paul Kaye. When I first joined the circus in 1974, I thought it was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. My mentor, Lou Regan used to tell me, "boy, you should have seen it 30 years ago, that is when it was really something," and he had many thought's on why it had changed. I thought he was nut's as it was pretty spectacular in 1974. What do I tell my son's today? I can tell them what it used to be, but I don't know what to tell them as to "why" it used to be that way, and "why" it became what it is today.

Wade Burck; 25 October, 2018 20:24
Charles Hanson said...: Well said Wade G. Burck......; 25 October, 2018 21:30
Chic Silber said...: Margarita Vasquez came up from

Mexico to the Beatty Show as a

teenager under the watchfull

eyes of Chatta & Pablo Martinez

She met & married Miguel Ayala

a few years later & they went

on to have 2 daughters that

followed in mom's hair routine

She became "French Style" as

Marguerite Michele years later

I see Margarita & Miguel once

in a while here in town; 26 October, 2018 12:49

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