“Ask Hovey” segment of the Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine show on Monday night featured the new Vaudevisuals Press book “Rose’s Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville.”
Book Shelf
Vaudevisuals Bookshelf selected this wonderful book about Asian elephants. Written by geographer Jacob Shell.
Interview with ‘Healthy Humor’ co-founder Karen McCarty. Talking about her grandmother Gladys Farkas who performed with Rose’s Royal Midgets.
Thom Walls new book is the recommended bookshelf choice for this week. “Juggling – What It Is And How To Do It”.
Vaudevisuals Bookshelf recommends “Weird and Wonderful – The Dime Museum in America” by Andrea Stulman Dennett.
Vaudevisuals Bookshelf recommends “The Grand Gypsy” – A Memoir by Ottavio Canestrelli with Ottavio Gesmundo. A great showbusiness life story that includes Krone Circus in 1922 and appearances on Ed Sullivan show. Wonderfully illustrated with many photographs.
Vaudevisuals Bookshelf selects Joe Posnanski’s “The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini” this week.
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