Tuesday, June 04, 2019

CLOWNS #8


Posted by Chic Silber at 6/04/2019 12:14:00 AM

5 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Jutta Forst twin to Brigitte

long before she married that

sad sack Neddie Toth

04 June, 2019 00:33
Roger Smith said...

Jutta poses with Jimmy James. Brigitte married Johnny Pugh, who knew what he was doing and proved it for decades of Beatty show ownership. After Johnny dropped Beatty from the title, his show continued as Cole. Neddie got permission to use the Clyde Beatty name to field another of his attempts at a circus. It folded almost overnight.

04 June, 2019 06:04
Chic Silber said...


If Edward (Neddie) Toth as Frank

McClosky's nephew wasn't as dumb

as a rock & tried in vain to rake

off great sums from concessions

he might have ended up as owner

or at least coowner of the show

04 June, 2019 10:16
Chic Silber said...


I know it isn't nice to speak

badly of the dead but I can't

help myself in some cases

04 June, 2019 10:17
Roger Smith said...

Neither can I help myself, and in some cases, have said so right here.


Around that Beatty show, Neddie blew it big time, and no less an example is Red Hartman. Out here, at Jungleland, we had Klaus and Ada Blaszak, who faced us with ultimate contempt after we took them in, saving his lion from the threats of the Ringling show. Our managers there, Roy Kabat and Ina Scarbrough, created false pretenses that led to the ouster and eventual suicide of Mabel Stark. Of these people, what are we to say of them now? In life, they all had chances to stand up and redeem something of their names, but they never did. They left bitter memories and these are the memories that live on.

05 June, 2019 01:25

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