Wednesday, March 13, 2019

WHEN #4


Posted by Chic Silber at 3/13/2019 09:31:00 AM

5 comments:

Charles Hanson said...

The one and only Herbie Webber....He would often run ads proclaiming....I was performing in South America(or wherever) in 1944... Where were you? You knew he was a Seasoned Trouper....

13 March, 2019 13:11
Roger Smith said...

That was among Herbie's running gags. Another favorite of his was to enter a dressing room and demand, "Where's all them F---ING CLOWNS!?"

One of his best stories came from a tall grass show he was on, and a truck got stuck in the mud. He got in and tried the various tricks to get it out, and finally threw it in reverse and gunned the hell out of it. The show owner was a woman, and she ran over screaming, "STOP, HERBIE, STOP! YOU'RE TEARING OUT MY WHOLE REAR END!" Everyone laughed so hard, the truck was still there in the morning.

13 March, 2019 20:20
Chic Silber said...


After this long slow climb

from 1 end of the track to

the top of the far center pole

Herbie did a fast backward

slide for life

13 March, 2019 22:17
Chic Silber said...


This is the Beatty Show

sometime in the mid 60s

13 March, 2019 22:19
Chic Silber said...


Herbie also did an excellent

fast moving low wire routine

including "A Tisket A Tasket"

13 March, 2019 22:45

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