Thursday, November 27, 2014

More "Sidney" (From Chic Silber)


Here is Sid wearing her "Jumbo" hat & cape in a performance of the Beatty Christmas date (early 60s) in the NY Coliseum.

The cape attendants are Kenny Dodd & Billy McCabe

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This engagement was complicated

by the NY newspaper strike

Ole Whitey said...

This date was booked for Nov 29, 1962 thru Jan 1, 1963 but unfortunately coincided with the newspaper strike and was a dismal failure. Some later referred to it as the New York "Mausoleum" date.

It was Mr Beatty's sixth and final appearance in midtown Manhattan. He had played the Garden four times with RBBB and the Hippodrome on Sixth Ave with the Cole show in 1937.