Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 394
I mean, you’re not together all the time. Read More
I mean, you’re not together all the time. Read More
And after you, what was, for both of you, what was a day in the life of on the lot like?… Read More
Did it surprise you that Frank was sleeping with the elephants?… Read More
He told me that story later. (chuckling) No, he didn’t smell like an elephant. (chuckling) And how did your family take to this young drummer?… Read More
(laughing) Not then. Read More
Well, on Sundays, we always had Sundays off. You’d go to the movies, usually go to the movies, after the girls that did… I thought this was funny. Read More
If you know what a aerial web is like, the girls climbed the white canvas webs, okay?… Read More
My father insisted that they be white. And so early Sunday morning, all the girls would be scrubbing their webs, and they had to be dried. Then after that, you could do whatever you cared to do with your rest of your Sunday afternoon. Read More
But I mean, there was a social time that you got to know each other. Read More
But is it difficult to have time alone?… Read More
That’s right. Yeah, my father- I performed with my brother and the trampoline and aerial work. My father was the question director. My mother traveled with us. She no longer worked in the acts. Just my brother and I. In the circus and on a lot, it’s a very close… Read More
Well, after the, usually, when according to the performance, what the acts they’re doing, you don’t always eat a heavy meal before the night performance. You eat lightly. And after the last performance at night, people will get together and eat. If you’re Italian family, you’ve got the spaghetti pot… Read More
How was it able, how were you able to conduct a romance?… Read More
You were in the family act?… Read More
Well, how old were you?… Read More
I was 18. Read More
I don’t think so. I don’t think I raised enough. Well, now that we have Connie sitting next to you, I have some, if I can go back, I have some circus questions to ask. Read More
He was a very good drummer. (chuckling) No, he was very interesting when I got to know him and talk with him. I was interested in where he lived in New England, and he was so interested in everything about the circus because he had been a circus fan, I… Read More
The first thing I’d like to ask is, what was your first impressions of this young man when you first met him?… Read More
I wasn’t very good at it. I was approached about mass trips to Africa. Another zoo director, I won’t name him, but another zoo director took advantage of it and turned it into a career. I didn’t. Read More