Tuesday, January 31, 2017

#1 Chic Pix


4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Billie Burke Ziegfeld

Richard Reynolds said...

Wasn't her dad a circus clown

Chic Silber said...


Yes Richard he was a Vaudevillian

who spent some time clowning on

RBBB but I don't know when

Chic Silber said...


William Ethelbert "Billie" Burke

He worked for several troupes &

by 1882 was clowning with Barnum

and Bailey's circus until 1906

Burke grandly billed himself as

"America's Greatest Clown"