Documents  |  Photos  |  Features  |  Classroom  |  Links  |  Listserv  |  About Us  |  Search

Photo Gallery

[ New Search ] Flexo, the Man with the Rubber Mug Location : New Orleans, LA Agency : FTP Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG-67-77 Enlarged Image Description : Believe It or Not, He's Playing a Cornet Solo--Without a Cornet--George Baud, also famous as "Flexo, the Man with the Rubber Mug" (in which capacity he "made" Ripley's pictures) entertains the convalescents of the US Marine Hospital at New Orleans as one of the WPA Federal Theatre's Sunshine Gang. The end men are (left) P.T. Paul and (right) "Sugar" Marietta, two minstrel veterans now members of the "gang". Listed Under: [Theater][Variety Shows][Sunshine Gang]