Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 402
Any big storms where there’s a blowdown, any animal escapes, any scandal, anything?… Read More
Any big storms where there’s a blowdown, any animal escapes, any scandal, anything?… Read More
Because you had your sheet music out. You already knew what you were gonna play. Probably played it 3,000 times. Not quite. Getting ready to play, just walk on the bandstand and take your drum out and play the prescribed music. The show we were with had a very good… Read More
I mean, everything new came out of the leader’s trunk, and the music was passed around, and it was different every day. In that sense, every show was different. The scheduled acts were always the same or primarily the same. But the before the show music, that 15 minutes before… Read More
Frank, did you have more time as a musician than Connie did as a performer?… Read More
So what was a kind of a day like?… Read More
And when did you interact with each other?… Read More
And you had your two different jobs to do and so forth. Well, the way I see it in performing, everybody’s very serious about what you have to do, and you get a routine, and, of course, passing each other, working around the backyard, getting ready for the performance, getting… 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
Well, I think they thought he was nice. Probably though when they thought we were getting serious, they looked at him in a little different light, I guess, for a while. (chuckling) “Well, now,” you know? (chuckling) Of course all circus families like to keep the kids close by, I… Read More
I mean, you’re not together all the time. Read More
Did it surprise you that Frank was sleeping with the elephants?… Read More
(laughing) Not then. 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
If you know what a aerial web is like, the girls climbed the white canvas webs, okay?… 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
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
How was it able, how were you able to conduct a romance?… Read More