Saturday, December 09, 2006

Dorabell


Harry Ritter and what looks to be Frank Cromwell in a photo taken on Ringling somewhere between 1947 and 1960.

I make that guess because the person who looks to be Frank Cromwell is dressed like Clarabell from the Howdy Doody show. I would have to guess that this was some kind of cross-promotion between the two shows. Clarabell's wearing a box around his waist telling us that he would prefer to be called "Dorabell" and he's got Clarabell's face painted on his shoes.

Isn't that just a dorabell?

My favorite part of the photo is the washline of BVDs in the background. Clean underwear always says "classy".


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

here else would you hang your clean underwear to dry. On the RBBB show no less.