Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Elkins Sisters
presenting
 postcard format 51/2 x 8 3/4
Las Vegas: Among the outstanding acts were the Elkins Sisters. If there is such a thing as something new in circus acts, this is it. The three Gals are acrobats with trained Afgans and Poodles
San Francisco: joining the sustained and deserved applause for the highly professional Elkins Sisters, who stun the crowd with their beauty and synchronized acro.-Act.

also typed on the back an address:
Kurt Schoppner Elkins, Manager
228 Pine Lane, Justice, Ill  60458
tel: 312/839-8939

This act appears in 1961 Official Program in the Annual Syrian Temple Shrine Circus Cincinnati,Ohio
April 3-8
Display #20

note: 4-14-58 Billboard in Palisades NJ has them on the Clyde Beaty Circus
note2: Puyallup Fair in Washington has them from 1970-1977
note#3: Cal Dodd & Sherisse Laurence welcomed the Elkins Sisters dog act-some Canadian TV I think.
note#4: They also worked under a newer name called The Fabulous Darnells Magic with a Touch of Class
and
Dazzling Darnells Poodle Follies (information gleaned from CircuSpace.Com

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