tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post5278853628876347275..comments2024-03-21T16:53:12.499-04:00Comments on Pat Cashin's CLOWNALLEY: CLOWN ALLEY: Clyde Beatty-Russel Bros. 1944Pat Cashinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581680714974752006noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-30641563995987471962009-08-01T23:57:45.236-04:002009-08-01T23:57:45.236-04:00My name is Patricia Feldman-Donaldson. My mother,...My name is Patricia Feldman-Donaldson. My mother, Willa Mae Rissell, her sister Pauline and husband Claude Webb were the owners of Russell Brothers Circus, although my mother was on the flying trapeze. I have newspaper clippings from in the day.Patricia Donaldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980521133047060501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-303319883126017752008-06-16T14:25:00.000-04:002008-06-16T14:25:00.000-04:00Has anyone info on or pics of Dick's Table Rock?Ha...Has anyone info on or pics of Dick's Table Rock?<BR/>Has anyone info on where he was trooping in 1949?<BR/>Please let Pat or I know thank you,<BR/>TommyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-18289288054402139412007-11-03T15:47:00.000-04:002007-11-03T15:47:00.000-04:00I hired Dick to be our resident clown at the Circu...I hired Dick to be our resident clown at the Circus World Museum the season of his tragic fall in San Antonio in the Fall on the beginning of the Texas Dates. <BR/><BR/>He proved to be just great in Baraboo and his circus clown persona proved to be a perfect mix of bringing circus history to life. He became quite popular with all the museum employees and so poular with the public and especially the kids. He would go out on the courtyard each day before our small daily street parade and soon he would cross the bridge in top hat and cane marching as the pied piper with the kids and family behind. He did a fine come in and nice gags in the performance with his delightful Irish lilt personality shining thru. He endearned himself with the local people when being up town. Everything was positive and naturally we invited him back for "next year", so it was a great shock for all of us when I received the phone call of his fall from the "table rock". I recall when he got the contract and the table rock was in it and he said how rusty he would be,[he didn't do it in Baraboo].<BR/><BR/>I had worked with Dick previous to Baraboo and spent time in "clown Alley" cutting up "jackpots" and it was a joy with Otto, Landon, Joe and Chester, Happy Kellums, Ernie, Grover, Smiley, Randow and all the others, with Dick being one of the ring leaders in all the BS. This before the Shrine Clowns appeared on the scene. What a great time it was and Dick was a big part of the whole thing. I will always remember him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com