Chicago Tribune April 13, 1943:
CIRCUS PALS TO BURY CURLY IN OWN VALHALLA
Curly Brown, the sword swallower, is to get a burial today with the great and near great of the circus and carnival world instead of the unmarked Potter's field grave to which his remains were apparently destined before some of his pals learned of his death.
By action voted yesterday by directors of the Showman's league Curly will be interred in Showman's Rest, a huge plot in Woodlawn cemetery maintained by the league as a sort of Valhalla for distinguished members of the outdoor showman's profession. It is a 600 grave plot whose boundaries are marked by four huge granite elephants and 300 veterans of the sawdust rings and flying trapeezes of the outdoor circuits already are buried there.
Curly died of pneumonia 10 days ago in a South State street hotel and his body was taken to the county morgue. Curly, 51, was alone in the world and there were no claimants for the body. Preparations for a Potter's grave burial were taking their routine course when members of the league heard of his death. Pall bearers will be clowns, performers, press agents, and bill posters who remember Curly as one of the best sword swallowers of them all.
Note: see http://www.swordswallow.com/halloffame.php
which adds he was with the E. E. Bonham Circus, performing 1922-1928.
CIRCUS PALS TO BURY CURLY IN OWN VALHALLA
Curly Brown, the sword swallower, is to get a burial today with the great and near great of the circus and carnival world instead of the unmarked Potter's field grave to which his remains were apparently destined before some of his pals learned of his death.
By action voted yesterday by directors of the Showman's league Curly will be interred in Showman's Rest, a huge plot in Woodlawn cemetery maintained by the league as a sort of Valhalla for distinguished members of the outdoor showman's profession. It is a 600 grave plot whose boundaries are marked by four huge granite elephants and 300 veterans of the sawdust rings and flying trapeezes of the outdoor circuits already are buried there.
Curly died of pneumonia 10 days ago in a South State street hotel and his body was taken to the county morgue. Curly, 51, was alone in the world and there were no claimants for the body. Preparations for a Potter's grave burial were taking their routine course when members of the league heard of his death. Pall bearers will be clowns, performers, press agents, and bill posters who remember Curly as one of the best sword swallowers of them all.
Note: see http://www.swordswallow.com/halloffame.php
which adds he was with the E. E. Bonham Circus, performing 1922-1928.
Chicago Tribune April 13, 1943:
CIRCUS PALS TO BURY CURLY IN OWN VALHALLA
Curly Brown, the sword swallower, is to get a burial today with the great and near great of the circus and carnival world instead of the unmarked Potter's field grave to which his remains were apparently destined before some of his pals learned of his death.
By action voted yesterday by directors of the Showman's league Curly will be interred in Showman's Rest, a huge plot in Woodlawn cemetery maintained by the league as a sort of Valhalla for distinguished members of the outdoor showman's profession. It is a 600 grave plot whose boundaries are marked by four huge granite elephants and 300 veterans of the sawdust rings and flying trapeezes of the outdoor circuits already are buried there.
Curly died of pneumonia 10 days ago in a South State street hotel and his body was taken to the county morgue. Curly, 51, was alone in the world and there were no claimants for the body. Preparations for a Potter's grave burial were taking their routine course when members of the league heard of his death. Pall bearers will be clowns, performers, press agents, and bill posters who remember Curly as one of the best sword swallowers of them all.
Note: see http://www.swordswallow.com/halloffame.php
which adds he was with the E. E. Bonham Circus, performing 1922-1928.
CIRCUS PALS TO BURY CURLY IN OWN VALHALLA
Curly Brown, the sword swallower, is to get a burial today with the great and near great of the circus and carnival world instead of the unmarked Potter's field grave to which his remains were apparently destined before some of his pals learned of his death.
By action voted yesterday by directors of the Showman's league Curly will be interred in Showman's Rest, a huge plot in Woodlawn cemetery maintained by the league as a sort of Valhalla for distinguished members of the outdoor showman's profession. It is a 600 grave plot whose boundaries are marked by four huge granite elephants and 300 veterans of the sawdust rings and flying trapeezes of the outdoor circuits already are buried there.
Curly died of pneumonia 10 days ago in a South State street hotel and his body was taken to the county morgue. Curly, 51, was alone in the world and there were no claimants for the body. Preparations for a Potter's grave burial were taking their routine course when members of the league heard of his death. Pall bearers will be clowns, performers, press agents, and bill posters who remember Curly as one of the best sword swallowers of them all.
Note: see http://www.swordswallow.com/halloffame.php
which adds he was with the E. E. Bonham Circus, performing 1922-1928.
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