Eric Trevail interviewed by Mark St Leon in Mark St Leon circus collection (1985-1988) [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 558576
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Trevail, Eric, 1904-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Open for research; written permission required from interviewer for personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 June
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 284 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- Mark St Leon circus collection (1985-1988)
- Summary:
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Trevail speaks of his family theatre background; Winnie & Con Colleano; Colleano's parents; education; Con's retirement & hotel business; performance before Hitler & Mussolini; Colleanos' attitude to money; Con's eyesight problems; Colleano family; alcohol; Con's Aboriginal background; his own parents & early life, Mt Victoria, NSW; Tivoli band; recollections of vaudeville shows; music for Con's act; Colleano's move to the US; his own mother's Indian background; Colleano's and success; Winnie's first marriage; Con's character; falls; Trevail family history & links to Earl of Derby; visiting May Wirth in US, 1973; Colleano's Circus demise; accompanying. Winnie on Sydney show circuit; Colleano's becoming single acts; boxing sideshows; Maurice Colleano; Joyce Colleano; time spent between contracts; his own relationship with Winnie; agents; Winnie & Con's romance; Winnie & Letty Creydon's act; Con's Tivoli act; origin of Colleano name; Trevail family musical talents; Colleanos' US lifestyle; Con's exit from Germany on outbreak of WW2; influence's on Con's Spanish act; his own contact with Jackie Gleeson; outback camping trip with Con; Akabah Arabs; circus families & war service; Poverty Point, Pitt Street, Sydney.
- Biography/History:
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Eric Trevail is the brother of Winnie Colleano, and her husband is Con Colleano.
- Notes:
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- Co-interviewer: Hazel St Leon?
- Recorded at Darling Point, N.S.W. on 6 and 27 June 1987.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 172 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- St. Leon, Mark, 1952-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Mark St. Leon circus collection (1985-1988).
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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