Thursday, November 01, 2018

BEATTY RUSSELL #7


Posted by Chic Silber at 11/01/2018 11:08:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Display #15 billed as "The Amazing Excellos"

must have been Art's "Flying Concellos" with

Antoinette, Art & Tuffy as the catcher

Kenny told me that Art had bought the Russell

Show from the Webbs

01 November, 2018 15:48
Chic Silber said...


Web girls include Frank McClosky's

1st wife Fanny & Harold "Tuffy"

Gender's 1st wife Gracie also were

Phil Escalante's wife Betty & 2 of

her sisters Milonga & Concha

Phil was Boss Canvas for the chain

of tented Summer Stock musical

theaters "The Music Fairs" that

I was technical director of for

the 1960 summer season & Betty

had the concessions department

for the "Camden County" tent in

Haddonfield New Jersey later on

she worked for Bobby Johnsen

01 November, 2018 15:58
Chic Silber said...


After the 13 web girls listed

there's a typo "web sisters"

Clearly they were web sitters

& Antoinette likely did a solo

01 November, 2018 16:09
Roger Smith said...

Milonga Escalante became Mrs. Johnny Cline. Harriett Beatty was extremely jealous of her husband, and a lot like Mabel Stark, had very few women friends out of sheer distrust. But Milonga was a special person, and she and Harriett enjoyed a true and long-lasting friendship. When Harriett died on the train, in 1950, it was Johnny Cline who was chosen to break the news to Beatty.

Big Joe Rimellette was for many seasons a catcher for the Concello acts, and worked in the act featuring Ernestine Clarke.

And, I don't know, CHIC--some of those web sitters may have been sisters, after all.

02 November, 2018 20:36

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